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First work ever about Jewish forced labor in the General Government (Poland) during the Holocaust. Draws on an Impressive range of sources and archival material This book presents all aspects of Jewish labor from 1939 to 1943, which makes it a complete history of the Holocaust on the Polish Lands It assesses the relevance of Jewish labor for the Germans, and shows Jewish reactions, thus integrating both perspectives into one narrative. Discusses key issues like ""is the term 'forced labor' adequate to describe all kinds of Jewish work?"" Presents German economic policy on the conquered territories, discussing the Germans' robbery, use and misuse of available resources, especially human resources and their inhuman treatment, which led to the downfall of the Nazi regime Explains the mutual dependence of economics and warfare during one of the most difficult periods in human history

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Witold Medykowski's book is a carefully researched study of the Nazis' deeply conflicted approaches to using Jewish forced labor in the General Government from the conquest of Poland to the large-scale extermination campaign of Aktion Reinhard. While Medykowski addresses his arguments to a wide variety of scholars, the work's primary value lies in its illumination of the bureaucratic and ideological confusion at the heart of the National Socialist regime, as well as the response of Polish Jews to the terrifying uncertainty of life under Nazi occupation. One of the volume's strengths is the author's command of both primary and secondary sources in Polish as well as German, and his extensive research in Polish, Israeli, and German archives. --Jesse Kauffman, Eastern Michigan University, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Witold Medykowski's book is a carefully researched study of the Nazis' deeply conflicted approaches to using Jewish forced labor in the General Government from the conquest of Poland to the large-scale extermination campaign of Aktion Reinhard. While Medykowski addresses his arguments to a wide variety of scholars, the work's primary value lies in its illumination of the bureaucratic and ideological confusion at the heart of the National Socialist regime, as well as the response of Polish Jews to the terrifying uncertainty of life under Nazi occupation. One of the volume's strengths is the author's command of both primary and secondary sources in Polish as well as German, and his extensive research in Polish, Israeli, and German archives. -Jesse Kauffman, Eastern Michigan University, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Witold W. Mdykowskiis a historian and political scientist. He is a graduate of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin and Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in political science at the Institute of Political Studies - Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and his PhD in Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests lie mainly in PolishJewish relations, the Holocaust, World War II, ethnic conflicts, economics, political science, and archival science

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