Hitler's Slaves

Alexander von Plato is a historian and the former Director of the Institute for History and Biography at the University of Hagen (Germany). He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, the Director of the International Life Story Project on Forced Labourers during WW II, and the Secretary of the International Oral History Association. His many publications include books and films on mentality history, focusing particularly on National Socialism, World War II, and German reunification.

• Remembrance, Responsibility and FutureForeword by the Board of Directors of the FoundationAcknowledgementsPART IEditors’ IntroductionPART IIChapter 1. Reports from Germany on Forced and Slave LabourAlexander von PlatoChapter 2. Work, Repression and Death after the Spanish Civil WarMercedes VilanovaChapter 3. Czechs as Forced and Slave Labourers during the Second World WarŠárka JarskáChapter 4. Slovak Republic (1939-1945)Viola JakschováChapter 5. ‘You can’t say it out loud. And you can’t forget’: Polish Experiences of Slave and Forced Labour for the ‘Third Reich’Piotr Filipkowski and Katarzyna Madoń-MitznerChapter 6. The Fate of Polish Slave and Forced Labourers fromŁódź Ewa Czerwiakowski and Gisela WenzelChapter 7. Interviews with Roma in Poland – A Report of My ExperiencesArthur PodgorskiChapter 8. The French Experience: STO, a Memory to Collect, a History to WriteAnne-Marie Granet-AbissetChapter 9. The Experiences of Hungarian Slave and Forced LabourersÉva KovácsChapter 10. ‘Mother, are the apples at home ripe yet?’: Slovenian Forced and Slave Labourers during the Second World WarMonika Kokalj KočevarChapter 11. Of Silence and Remembrance: Forced Labour and the NDH, and the History of their RemembranceChristian SchölzelChapter 12. ‘If you lose your freedom, you lose everything’: The Experiences and Memories of Serbian Forced LabourersBarbara N. WiesingerChapter 13. They Survived Two Wars: Bosnian Roma as Civil War Refugees in GermanyBirgit MairChapter 14. Forced Labour in Bulgaria 1941-1944. Tracing the MemoriesAna LulevaChapter 15. Lithuania 1941-1944: Slave and Forced Labourers RememberRose Lerer CohenChapter 16. Belarusian Forced Labourers: Types and Recruitment MethodsAlexander DalhouskiChapter 17. Forced and Slave Labour in Belarus: Experiences, Coping Strategies and Personal AccountsImke Hansen and Alesja BelanovichChapter 18. The Experience of Forced Labourers from Galician UkraineTetyana LapanChapter 19. Oral Histories of Former Ukrainian ‘Ostarbeiter: Preliminary Results of AnalysisGelinada GrinchenkoChapter 20. Oral Testimonies from RussiaIrina ScherbakowaChapter 21. The Experience of Citizens of the Former Soviet Union as Forced Labourers in Nazi GermanyNatalia TimofeyevaChapter 22. Presenting Life in Captivity. Oral Testimonies of Former Forced and Slave Labourers from St Petersburg and the Russian NorthwestAnna ReznikovaChapter 23. Women’s Biographies and Women’s Memory of WarOlga Nikitina, Elena Rozhdestvenskaya and Victoria SemenovaChapter 24. The Deportation of the Italians 1943-45Doris Felsen and Viviana FrenkelChapter 25. Former Forced Labourers as Immigrants in Great Britain after 1945Christoph ThonfeldChapter 26. Slave Labour and Shoah – A View from IsraelMargalit Bejarano and Amija BoassonChapter 27. International Slave and Forced Labour Documentation Project: United States, Atlanta, GeorgiaSara Ghitis and Ruth WeinbergerChapter 28. Forced and Slave Labour in the Context of the Jewish Holocaust ExperienceDori Laub and Johanna BodenstabPART III.Chapter 29. A Memorial for the Persecuted – Materials for Education and Science: The Compilation of Biographies of Former Slave and Forced LabourersAlmut Leh and Henriette SchlesingerChapter 30. ‘A moment of elation … and painful’: The Homecoming of Slave and Forced Labourers after the Second World WarChristoph ThonfeldChapter 31. Witnesses at the First Auschwitz Trial in FrankfurtDagi KnellesenChapter 32. Revisiting Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors 25 Years LaterDori Laub and Johanna BodenstabChapter 33. ‘It Was a Modern Slavery’: First Results of the Documentation Project on Forced and Slave LabourAlexander von PlatoAppendicesAppendix I:Interview GuidelinesAlexander von PlatoAppendix II: Timeline Forced Labour and CompensationJoachim RiegelAppendix III: Interview PartnerList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex