
Forced Labor under National Socialism
Companion Volume to the Permanent Exhibition
Wallstein (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-3-8353-5858-4 (ISBN)
Description
For the first time, Nazi forced labour is documented in its pan-European dimension as a racist social crime.
The exhibition tells the complex story of forced labor under National Socialism and its aftermath in the decades since 1945. It shows that forced labor was a mass phenomenon: During World War II, more than twenty million people had to perform labor for National Socialist Germany in occupied Europe and the German Reich. And it retraces the integration of forced labor into the racist social order of the Nazi state from the very beginning: The propagated "people's community" and the forced labor of those excluded from it were two sides of the same coin.
This volume documents the main strands of the exhibition and presents numerous long-unknown historical photos and documents. The accompanying scholarly essays provide more in-depth insights into the research on the history of National Socialist forced labor and the Weimar "Gauforum," the building now housing the Museum of Forced Labor under National Socialism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Product notice
Card cover
With flaps
sewn/stitched
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
200
mit 200 z.T. farb. Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 269 mm
Width: 201 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
970 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8353-5858-4 (9783835358584)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Daniel Logemann ist Leiter des Museums Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus im ehemaligen Gauforum in Weimar.
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Rikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau, geb. 1966, ist Historiker und stellvertretender Direktor der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora. Er ist Kurator zahlreicher Ausstellungen zur Lagergeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, darunter: »Schwarz auf Weiß«. Fotografien aus dem Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (2007).
ISNI: 0000 0001 1876 3370
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Jens-Christian Wagner, geb. 1966, war Geschäftsführer der Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten und Leiter der Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen. Seit Mai 2020 ist er Direktor der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora und Professor für Geschichte in Medien und Öffentlichkeit an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Veröffentlichungen u. a.: Menschen in Bergen-Belsen. Biografische Skizzen zu Häftlingen des Konzentrationslagers (Mithg., 2019).
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