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The factory that employed forced labour during WWII was operative in the core zone.
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Construction on Auschwitz II-Birkenau began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), intended the camp to house 50,000 prisoners of war, who would be interned as forced laborers (wiki)
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In the final months of World War II, in March and April of 1945 a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was located in the city, with 460 forced laborers of various nationalities, 40 of whom died.
See www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de
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A forced labour camp was set up behind the Vilnius Town Hall as a factory to produce winter clothing for the Wehrmacht and another one later for vehicle repair.
See en.wikipedia.org
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this facility was built by mobilizing a large number of local residents, especially mine workers from Jeonnam Province, rather than Jeju Island residents. Among them, the I-shaped cave fort was built as a hangar for storing small ships that the Japanese military used to launch suicide bombing attacks on the Allied fleet." Korean Heritage Service (National Registered Cultural Heritage - 2006)
See uci.k-heritage.tv
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"In der zweiten Kriegshälfte wurde der Fortgang der Produktion auch in Völklingen durch den umfassenden Einsatz von Kriegsgefangenen, Zwangsarbeitern und Frauen gesichert. Kriegsgefangene und Zwangsarbeiter, die in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zwischen 33 und 40% der Belegschaft stellten, wurden nur flüchtig ausgebildet und vorzugsweise für schwere und gefährliche Arbeiten eingesetzt. Die Arbeitsdisziplin überwachte der mit Feuerwaffen ausgerüstete paramilitärische Werkschutz. .... Viele russische Zwangsarbeiter überlebten diese Torturen nicht; sie sind heute in einem Gräberfeld auf dem sogenannten Russenfriedhof bestattet, einem Teil des Völklinger Waldfriedhofs."
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Forced labourers were used at the Rammelsberg by the Nazis.
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Right after WWII German prisoners were forced to work at the reconstruction of Dannewirke by the British
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Fagus was one of the German shoe companies that used Concentration camp inmates were as guinea pigs for testing products.
See www.handelsblatt.com
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George Town - Female residents were also coerced to work as comfort women by the Imperial Japanese Army, with a handful of brothels set up within the city.
See en.wikipedia.org
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"an estimated 60,000 labourers forced to work at seven of the sites, including the island coalmine Gunkanjima, during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula"
See www.theguardian.com
