Rechtliche und organisatorische Grundlagen des Funktionierens der Arbeitslager in Polen in den Jahren 1945 – 1950
The Legal and Organizational Principles of the Labor Camps in Poland 1945 – the 1950s.

Summary/Abstract: After the end of WW2, numerous labor and detention camps were set up in Poland, whose purpose was mainly aiming at the resettlement of Germans. In the Census list, there were Polish citizens and locals who had been detained from the recovered areas. These bearings were reached by Soviet troops (NKVD), the local Polish authorities and in particular by the Ministry of public Security. A special group was formed by camps for forced labor at the service of the coal industry Administration. In all the forced labor camps, the inmates were subjected to repression, which also led to deaths among them. There were also the extremely poor living conditions, the chaos in organizing the matters, the falty approval of the stock orders, and the acceptance of retaliation against the Germans and their own "traitors of the Nation". This led to the gradual dissolution of the camp, including the resettlement of Germans, the control of the local population, the economic fiasco of the company and the international context.

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