However depressing its subject matter, the translation of Ulrich Herbert's exhaustive study on the more than 7.6 million foreigners who were forced into slave labor in Nazi Germany during World War Two is to be warmly welcomed. It is a model study because of its broad archival research base as well as its findings. When the German original appeared in 1985, it helped to redefine the agenda for the study of the Third Reich, and since then a new generation of historians has come along to work on questions that Herbert and others had begun to lay out.