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Article: Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2007
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Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944. By Wolf Gruner. Translated by Kathleen M. Dell'Orto. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press with the United States Holocaust Museum, 2006. Pp. xiv, 322. $75.00.)
This book is a milestone in the historiography of the Holocaust, focusing on what the author called, in a 1992 essay, "terra incognita." Jewish forced labor was planned and directed mainly independently of the SS-controlled concentration camps and ghettos. Although these parallel systems conflicted and competed, normally there was "a compromise between work and destruction" that persisted to the summer of 1944 when the Lodz ...