Nazi forced labor in Kiel

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The Nazi forced labor in Kiel is an important part of the local history of Kiel in the time of National Socialism . During the Second World War , a large number of camps for slave labor , prisoners of war and prisoners existed near the city and its immediate vicinity .

background

The exact number of forced labor camps in the Kiel area is unclear. A hundred forced labor camps are listed in the appendix to the study The deployment of foreign workers in the Kiel armaments industry 1939-1945 . Nine warehouses, for example, were used by the Deutsche Werke in Kiel . In addition, the existence concentration camp keel of the Neuengamme concentration camp .

Industrial companies in Kiel were active in machine, boiler, apparatus and vehicle construction. The proportion of foreigners in this branch of industry in Kiel was 16.7%. The proportion of foreigners in the Kiel employment office was a total of 21.6%. More than 1,000 forced laborers were employed for the Germania shipyard alone , and around 1,200 deportees from occupied countries and concentration camp prisoners were used in the construction of the Kilian submarine bunker . In 1944, over 10,000 " Eastern workers " were deployed in Kiel alone .

See also

literature

  • Jörg Tillmann-Mumm: The deployment of foreign workers in the Kiel armaments industry 1939-1945. Kiel 1999.
  • Gerhard Hoch: French prisoners of war in Kiel 1941 - 1945. In: Communications of the Society for Kiel City History, Volume 79, Issue 2/1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nils Köhler and Sebastian Lehmann: Camps, Accommodation for Foreigners and Prisoner of War Commands in Schleswig-Holstein 1939-1945 , accessed on: March 1, 2020
  2. ^ Rolf Schwarz. The employment relationships in the employment office districts of Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on: March 1, 2020
  3. ↑ Statistics on the "deployment of foreigners" in Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 109 kB) p. 5.