History 3427E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Omer Bartov, Plausible Deniability, Sonderaktion 1005
10 Dec 2016
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Forced emigration as part of camp system. Make work projects (hard labour for the sake of it) 1938 labour begins to be used systematically. Have prisoners making bricks (to be used to build the new. More arian you are the more likely you"ll be higher in rank. At this point it is harder to care for prisoners as there are so many of them and not enough resources which results in high death rates / need for death camps. Ss realizes the potential for selling prisoners for money to do daily jobs for other germans. Increase rations, make conditions more bearable for poisoners so they live long enough but still weakened so they don"t fight back or waste money. Camps become much more deadly during this period. Once a prisoner was worked till they couldn"t anymore they were sent to death camps. Forced laborers: paid a very small amount. The machinery of destruction: the rsha and the reichsbahn.
