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Despite the marginal economic importance of the city, the forced labor system in Plauen in the Vogtland was just as merciless as in the industrial centers of the German Empire. While the imperial legislation made concessions in the course of the war, the operating conditions on the ground tightened. The intensifying bomb war during the war finally led the armaments companies to the periphery of the empire and thus to the Vogtland. With the relocation, a large number of foreign workers, especially from the occupied eastern territories, came to Plauen and new industries emerged. The local authorities had to react to the increasing challenges posed by the ""deployment of foreigners"" from 1943 onwards. The book describes in detail the development of the labor deployment of forced laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners in Plauen and also highlights the individual fates of foreign workers who were used for forced labor in agriculture, industry and the authorities.

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From 2005 to 2010, Katherine Lukat completed her master's degree at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg in the subjects of history, political science and communication science. 2011−2019 PhD student at the Chair for Recent History at the University of Bamberg, on the subject of forced labor in Plauen in the Vogtland. 2017−2018 coordinator of the doctoral platform Geisenheim − Gießen − Marburg, Justus Liebig University Gießen. 2018 research assistant at the Mittelhessen research campus. Since 2018 research assistant at the Wiesbaden City Archives with a focus on the history of the Nazi era, memorials and culture of remembrance.

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