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> After the war, German soldiers were passed around to be used as slave labor by the Allies Really? I never heard of this except USSR. I know that in the ear
by gumby 3y ago
> After the war, German soldiers were passed around to be used as slave labor by the Allies
Really? I never heard of this except USSR.
I know that in the early months after the war the general populace was forced not just to tour death camps but sometimes bury bodies, and that during the war, western countries like Canada had enlisted men do some farming, but as far as I know the western allies tried to disgorge their PoWs as quickly as possible because they were a cost.
Can you point me to references otherwise?
Certainly USA, UK, and USSR “recruited” German scientists and spies post war, and how much free will they felt or did have in the matter can be questioned. But I don’t think any of them were slaves.
- ungruntled 3y agoThese wikipedia articles have some related information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_afte... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944–50_flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944–50_flight_and_expulsion... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_plans_for_German_industry_after_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_plans_for_German_indu... Edit: Added an additional link for forced deindustrialization of Germany