Ferencz: German industry, slave labor, compensation

Identifier
irn1001040
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0037
  • RG-12.021.01
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Mr. Benjamin B. Ferencz

Scope and Content

Audio recording of the German television program "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" that aired November 1984. Program is based on Benjamin Ferencz's authoritative book on slave labor: "Less Than Slaves," Harvard University Press, 1979. The book deals with the Nazi program of Vernichtung durch Arbeit [destruction through work] in which millions were coerced into labor by German industrialists for the Nazi war machine. The book also explains the quest of survivors to get compensation from the West German government. TAPE 1, 2 SIDES.

Note(s)

  • B. Ferencz notes and correspondence located in "B. Ferencz Papers--Vernichtung durch Arbeit" file.

Subjects

  • FACTORIES (I.G. FARBEN)
  • INDUSTRY (GERMAN)
  • FERENCZ, BENJAMIN
  • FACTORIES (SIEMENS)
  • PRISONERS
  • FACTORIES (ZEISS)
  • LABOR CAMPS
  • FORCED LABOR
  • FACTORIES (KRUPP)

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

  • Documentary.
  • Film
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