Macht Arbeit Frei? German Economic Policy and Forced Labor of Jews in the General Government, 1939-1943 / Witold Mędykowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mędykowski, Witold, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book examines the forced labor of Jews in the General Government of Occupied Poland from 1939-1943. Specifically, it traces the bureaucratic understanding and use the terms "labor" and "work" in the General Government; it also examines how these terms figured in the lives of Jews, for whom "labor"''s original understanding as a means of subsistence came to be redefined as a means of survival. The changing meaning of other key terms are examined in detail; these include, among others, "forced labor" (Zwangsarbeit), "slave labor" (Sklavenarbeit). The volume carefully analyzes the modus operandi of the Nazi system of power, in which bureaucracy ballooned, there were conflicts of interest between different institutions, and there was a total destruction of human and moral values, which led to extensive degeneration.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101117

ISBN:

9781618119087