English Translation

149 in National Socialist Germany, which has so far been the guarantor of discrimination and oppression by foreigners. Now, racial indoctrination began to take place in a part of the German population, when some self-instigated municipal authorities began to organize hunts on foreigners, especially on "Zebras," as cynically referred to refugees in striped concentration mundars, hand them over to the Gestapo or to lynch them. There was a time when even the Eastern European workforce became at least on paper by co-workers. Who dared to enter the ruined houses for food or dress, could be as draping shot at the site. Only in the Ruhr have thousands of foreign workers fallen in the last weeks of the war © mostly eastern workers and Poles © victimized by the executions of security forces. In March and April 1945, more forced workers of all groups died, except Soviet prisoners of war, than in any other month of war. (398) In total, 600,000 people were sent to work in the empire from the Czech Republic, from which 3,000 did not return, became victims of diseases, accidents at work, repression or allied bombing, and thousands of others paid for this involuntary life experience of broken health. Approximately 60,000 Czech citizens died within two years of returning home from forced labor on the consequences of exhaustion or infectious diseases. (399) Mass deployment in the empire was not only a enslavement of part of the population of the Protectorate, but according to Heydrich (400) and one of the appropriate means for gradual Germanization of the Czech countries. After the defeat and surrender of Germany, forced slave labor became part of the indictment in the Nuremberg trial with Nazi war criminals.