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After 1945: Forced Laborers as Forgotten Victims
After the war the forced laborers became the forgotten victims of National Socialism. Foreign victims had no voice in Germany; forced labor was not recognized as a specific Nazi crime.
Repatriation Pass for Guy S., France, 1945
After 1945, many of those who were abducted stayed in camps on German soil as displaced persons. At home, especially in the Soviet Union, those who returned were often suspected of collaboration with the Germans. Some were taken to Stalinist camps; others were discriminated against in choosing a career.
Some people did not even tell their family about their experiences of forced labor. Most of the survivors suffered from the psychological and physical consequences of forced labor; particularly in Eastern Europe, they often live on the verge of the existence minimum.
News
Life Story Interviews for the Classroom: Keeping memory alive and imparting history
New multimedia teaching material on forced labor presented to public.
New archive version online
Additional search functionality - Growing number of indexed interviews
Presence at "didacta 2010"
The educational materials of the multimedia archive projects "Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History" and "Witnesses of the Shoah. The Visual History Archive in School Education" will be introduced at the education fair "didacta" from March 16th to March 20th in Cologne.
