''Totaleinsatz'' (German: "total deployment" or "comprehensive mobilisation") refers to

forced labour under German rule during World War II The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (german: Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale. It was a vital part of the German economic exploitation of conquered t ...

during the

German occupation of Czechoslovakia German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

. A total of 400,000 Czechs worked as forced labour in Germany. This was a subset of the ''

Arbeitseinsatz ''Arbeitseinsatz'' (german: for 'labour deployment') was a forced labour category of internment within Nazi Germany (german: Zwangsarbeit) during World War II. When German men were called up for military service, Nazi German authorities rounded ...

'' for German men, but with ambiguity as to the status of Czechs under the "Protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia. As ' inferior Slavs', Czech labourers were generally were treated worse than the French and Dutch, but not as badly as ''de facto'' slave labourers like the Ukrainian ''

Ostarbeiter : ' (, "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. The Germans started deporting civilians at the beginning ...

''.

References

{{reflist Military history of Czechoslovakia during World War II Unfree labor during World War II Labor in Czechoslovakia