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Nazi Germany: Training Forced Labor

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This essay explores training surrounding the forced foreign labor during World War II including the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation. Jews, Russians, and Roma were involved in mandatory training courses to enhance the labor skills. Such training courses were run so that workers could qualify for labor certificates in German industry. Many Jews (erroneously) believed that if they could demonstrate their usefulness to German industry, this would reduce their chances of being exterminated.

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Kopp, D.M. (2018). Nazi Germany: Training Forced Labor. In: Famous and (Infamous) Workplace and Community Training. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59753-3_5

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