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Women at work in Germany's armaments industry. The women in front are forced laborers brought in from a nearby prison. [LCID: 78598]
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Industry

Leaders of banks, insurance companies, and other commercial and industrial businesses participated in the persecution of Jews. Many of them played a role in the “Aryanization” of the German economy, the expropriation of Jewish assets, and the use of forced labor during World War II (1939–1945). Explore more content related to the role of industry during the Holocaust.

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Bayer
Belle Mayer Zeck [LCID: wctbz004]
Oral History
Belle Mayer Zeck describes difficult working conditions during the Nuremberg trials
Belle Mayer Zeck [LCID: wctbz001]
Oral History
Belle Mayer Zeck describes the size and influence of IG Farben
Media Essay
Belle Mayer Zeck: Oral History Excerpts
Belle Mayer Zeck [LCID: wctbz003]
Oral History
Belle Mayer Zeck reflects upon the sentences given to leaders of the economy
At Berlin's Opernplatz, the burning of books and other printed materials considered "un-German" by members of the SA and students ... [LCID: 68984]
Article
Eduard Schulte
The inside of a large factory with tables in rows. Rows of prisoners sit on one side of the tables and work on materials in front of them.
Article
Forced Labor
Forced labor at a Siemens factory
Photo
Forced labor at a Siemens factory at Bobrek, an Auschwitz subcamp
The inside of a large factory with tables in rows. Rows of prisoners sit on one side of the tables and work on materials in front of them.
Photo
Forced labor in a Siemens factory at an Auschwitz subcamp
The defendants rise as the judges enter the courtroom at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. [LCID: 03548]
Article
Fritz Sauckel
View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. [LCID: 61323]
Article
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
The I. G. Farben defendants hear the indictments against them before the start of the trial. [LCID: 81981]
Photo
Indictment of the IG Farben defendants
Ludmilla Page [LCID: lpb0566f]
Oral History
Ludmilla Page describes sabotage during production of munitions in Oskar Schindler's factory in Brünnlitz
Nazi tribute to German industrialist Gustav Krupp [LCID: dhk0224g]
Film
Nazi tribute to German industrialist Gustav Krupp
Norbert J. Yasharoff [LCID: nyl0118m]
Oral History
Norbert J. Yasharoff describes the trial and sentencing of a Jewish man falsely charged with economic crimes
Oskar Schindler standing (second from right) with some of the people he rescued. [LCID: 03411]
Article
Oskar Schindler

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