Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Prologue: Anti-Jewish Policies in the Nazi State before 1938
- GERMANY
- 1 Segregated Labor Deployment – Central Planning and Local Practice, 1938–1945
- 2 German Jews in Forced Labor Camps, 1939–1943
- 3 “Special Service” – Forced Labor of Jewish Mischlinge, 1942–1945
- AUSTRIA
- THE PROTECTORATE OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA
- THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF POLAND
- Conclusion
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Persons
- Index of Places and Camps
3 - “Special Service” – Forced Labor of Jewish Mischlinge, 1942–1945
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Prologue: Anti-Jewish Policies in the Nazi State before 1938
- GERMANY
- 1 Segregated Labor Deployment – Central Planning and Local Practice, 1938–1945
- 2 German Jews in Forced Labor Camps, 1939–1943
- 3 “Special Service” – Forced Labor of Jewish Mischlinge, 1942–1945
- AUSTRIA
- THE PROTECTORATE OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA
- THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF POLAND
- Conclusion
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Persons
- Index of Places and Camps
Summary
PERSECUTION AFTER THE NOVEMBER POGROM
Although forced labor by people discriminated against by the Nazis for being so-called Mischlinge, that is, offspring of mixed Jewish and non-Jewish parentage, frequently has been documented in local studies on the persecution of Jews, neither older nor more recent academic research has focused in any depth on this subject. Only Dieter Maier devoted cursory attention to some forced-labor measures and a few organizational details, but no attention is given to forced labor's origins, development, and background. That author frequently does not even distinguish between the different measures against Jews in mixed marriages and against Mischlinge. Thus until now, research has not examined how the decision to introduce forced labor for Mischlinge came about, who made the decision, and when it occurred. Likewise, studies are lacking on what motivated this kind of forced labor, who organized it, and how it was carried out. Forced labor must, however, be viewed as a basic element of Nazi anti-Jewish policy, and for that reason the following discussion will attempt to close the existing gaps in knowledge about the persecution of Jewish Mischlinge and the so-called jüdisch Versippte, that is, Aryan partners married to Jews.
Since the first persecutory measures, racial classification of the victims had been an ongoing problem for the Nazi leadership. The Nuremberg Laws furnished an accepted hierarchy of full Jews, half-Jews, and so on, but in subsequent years the Nazi leadership had to decide each time anew which groups would be subjected to new anti-Jewish orders.
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- Jewish Forced Labor under the NazisEconomic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938–1944, pp. 83 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006