Forced Labour in the Reich and Criminal Abuse as reflected in the Polish UNWCC Charge Files - Instytut Pileckiego
seminar
02.10.2019 (Wed) 12:00
Forced Labour in the Reich and Criminal Abuse as reflected in the Polish UNWCC Charge Files
The issue of forced labour in Germany during the Second World War recently received renewed attention with the gaff made by the heiress of the Choco Leibniz fortune. This is of course a rather extreme example of naivety concerning the treatment and conditions of forced labourers, and there has been much serious and penetrating work done on the subject, principally by German scholars and in many cases connected with reparations. The issue of forced labour also appears quite frequently in the charge files of the Polish office of the UNWCC (United Nations War Crimes Commission), and was clearly important within the general understanding among Polish authorities of German wartime crimes and abuses. Dr John Cornell would like to consider what particular insight these charge files might offer.
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