Forced labor in Nazi Germany

Forced labor in Nazi Germany was the coercive exploitation of millions of people, especially foreign civilians and prisoners, to sustain the German war economy during the Second World War.

Arbeitseinsatz: The Nazi system for mobilizing and assigning labor, especially foreign workers, to the German war economy. Its offices and policies coordinated labor demands, recruitment, deportation, and placement.
Fritz Sauckel: The Nazi official appointed in 1942 as plenipotentiary for labor deployment. He directed mass recruitment and deportation of foreign workers to Germany.
German armaments production in World War II: The manufacture of weapons and military equipment by Germany during the Second World War. Forced workers helped expand production as German military demands grew.
Displaced persons after World War II: People left outside their countries of origin after the Second World War, including survivors of forced labor and Nazi persecution. Millions of former forced laborers faced disrupted lives and difficult repatriation after liberation.
Forced labor in occupied Europe: The coercive recruitment and exploitation of civilians in territories occupied by Nazi Germany. Occupation authorities supplied a major share of workers deported to the Reich.
Albert Speer: A leading Nazi official who directed armaments production and served as minister of armaments and war production. His production apparatus relied extensively on coerced labor.
V-2 rocket: A German ballistic missile developed and used during the Second World War. Prisoners from Mittelbau-Dora were forced to manufacture it in lethal underground conditions.
Nuremberg trials: A series of postwar trials prosecuting major Nazi leaders and organizations for crimes committed during the war. Prosecutors presented forced labor as evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Organisation Todt: A Nazi paramilitary construction organization that built military infrastructure using conscripted and forced labor. Its construction projects show how forced labor supported military operations.
Foreign workers in Nazi Germany: Civilians brought or deported from occupied and allied countries to work in Germany during the Nazi era. They formed the largest broad category of civilian forced laborers in the Reich.

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