English Translation

110 2.3.2 Work enslavement © various forms of involuntary work deployment ("voluntary recruitment," work obligation, job management, job command, protection service, protectorate technical emergency assistance, TNH, Total deployment on the labour front (Totaleinsatz) During World War II, millions of people from many European countries worked against their will for the Nazi Germany economy, in which they replaced German men who were drafted into the army. These were prisoners of war, prisoners of concentration camps, but also civilians forced to work in Germany or on occupied territories. The forced labor in Hitler's empire grew to huge proportions and represented the whole system without which the German war machinery could not exist. This system of forced labour was created, formed and organized by the national authorities of the Nazi state with the help of its law, in the occupied countries and through its vassal regimes. The Czech population of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, especially the younger generation, also hit the forced labor force for the war economy in all its forms and represented without a dispute one of the worst and most massive manifestations of the occupation regime. (296) The Germans activated the total deployment of the Czech population on the working front (so-called. Totaleinsatz) in all its forms - from recruitment actions of volunteers, through official orders to other workplaces, the conscription of whole years for work in the empire, which took the form of almost military contributions, to police deportation to labor educational camps of the Gestapo or the removal of debris bombed by German cities by young people in sections of labour and technical services (Luftschutz, Technische Nothillfe etc.).