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s and their documented collaboration in the implementation of

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

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File:Zyklon B labels.jpg , Zyklon B used at Dachau concentration camp. "Poison Gas! Cyanide preparation to be opened and used only by trained personnel" is found at the center of both labels. They were shown at Nuremberg Trial. File:Destroyed Magirus-Deutz furniture transport van Kolno Poland 1945.jpg , A destroyed Magirus-Deutz

Gas van A gas van or gas wagon (russian: душегубка, ''dushegubka'', literally "soul killer"; german: Gaswagen) was a truck reequipped as a mobile gas chamber. During the World War II Holocaust, Nazi Germany developed and used gas vans on a large ...

found in 1945 in

Koło Koło (; during the German occupation called ''Wartbrücken'' in 1940–41, ''Warthbrücken'' in 1941–45) is a town on the Warta River in central Poland with 23,101 inhabitants (2006). It is situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 199 ...

(Kolo), Poland, not far from the

Chełmno extermination camp , known for = , location = Near Chełmno nad Nerem, ''Reichsgau Wartheland'' (German-occupied Poland) , built by = , operated by = , commandant = Herbert Lange, Christian Wirth , original use = , construction = , in operatio ...

. File:Prigionieri a Chelmno.jpg , Prisoners in

Chełmno Chełmno (; older en, Culm; formerly ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional impor ...

(northern Poland), before getting into the

gas van A gas van or gas wagon (russian: душегубка, ''dushegubka'', literally "soul killer"; german: Gaswagen) was a truck reequipped as a mobile gas chamber. During the World War II Holocaust, Nazi Germany developed and used gas vans on a large ...

. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-638-4221-06, Produktion von Messerschmitt Bf 109.jpg , War production of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane with slave labour. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1980-005-07, Montage des Messerschmitt-Jägers.jpg , Assembly of the Messerschmitt fighter plane, 1944. File:Furnace room in crematory II.jpg , Furnace room in crematory II, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The picture was taken by the SS before finishing the building in June 1943. Most furnaces and crematoria were supplied by

Topf and Sons J. A. Topf and Sons (german: J. A. Topf & Söhne) was an engineering company, founded in 1878 in Erfurt, Germany by Johannes Andreas Topf (1816–1891). Originally, it made heating systems and brewing and malting equipment. Later, the company div ...

. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 192-269, KZ Mauthausen, Häftlinge im Steinbruch.jpg , Prisoners of

Mauthausen concentration camp Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with List of subcamps of Mauthausen, nearly 100 further ...

in the quarry ("Stairs of Death").

DEST German Earth and Stone Works (german: Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH, ) was an SS-owned company created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany. DEST was a subsidiary company of ''Amtsgru ...

used them to produce building materials for the

Führer Headquarters The ''Führer'' Headquarters (german: Führerhauptquartiere), abbreviated FHQ, were a number of official headquarters used by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and various other German commanders and officials throughout Europe during the Second World ...

and other projects. File:Site of mass burning of 250 Polish and French slave laborers at Nazi camp near Leipzig on April 19, 1945, the day before the city was captured by 69th Inf. Div. First U.S. Army. The victims LCCN90709903.tif , In the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp that existed from the beginning of March 1943 to April 1945, for over 1450 male concentration camp prisoners (as of March 1945), the prisoners had to do forced labor for Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-774-0011-34, Produktion von Flugzeug Heinkel He 111 P-4.jpg, Production of the Heinkel He 111, P-4 bomber at the Heinkel plant in

Oranienburg Oranienburg () is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Oberhavel. Geography Oranienburg is a town located on the banks of the Havel river, 35 km north of the centre of Berlin. Division of the town Oranienburg ...

, 1939 File:Остарбайтери 1942.jpg, Residents of

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

are moving towards the collective dispatch of Ostarbeiter to Germany. Nekrasivska Street,

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

1942 File:Female foreign workers from Stadelheim prison work in a factory owned by the AGFA camera company.jpg, Female foreign workers from Stadelheim prison work in a factory owned by the AGFA camera company, May 1943. The photo was entered into evidence at the

IG Farben trial ''The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al.'', also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany (Nuremberg) after the end of World War ...

. File:WrNeustadt Serbenhalle Nordseite.jpg, The ''Serbenhalle'' of the

Raxwerke Raxwerke or Rax-Werke was a facility of the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria. During World War II, the company also produced lamps for Panzer tanks and anti-aircraft guns. Two Raxwerke plants employed several ...

. The hall, was booty from Serbia, rebuilt in

Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...

. It housed a subcamp of the

used to manufacture

V2 rocket The V-2 (german: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit=Retaliation Weapon 2), with the technical name ''Aggregat 4'' (A-4), was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed ...

s. One year before, still in Serbia, more than 1,700 residents of

Kraljevo Kraljevo ( sr-cyr, Краљево, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Raška District in central Serbia. It is situated on the confluence of West Morava and Ibar River, Ibar, in the geographical region of � ...

had been shot dead in front of and in this hall by the

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the '' Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previo ...

as revenge for a partisan attack during the

Kraljevo massacre The Kraljevo massacre was the World War II mass murder of approximately 2,000 residents of the city of Kraljevo in the German-occupied territory of Serbia between 15 and 20 October 1941 by the German Army. The massacre came in reprisal for a joi ...

. File:German executions in Kraljevo 1941.jpg, Germans shoot residents of

in 1941 during the

(see

) File:Hasag camp Częstochowa Ghetto.jpg,

HASAG HASAG (also known as Hugo Schneider AG, or by its original name in german: Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft Metallwarenfabrik) was a German metal goods manufacturer founded in 1863. Based in Leipzig, it grew from a small business making lamps ...

forced labour camp,

Częstochowa Ghetto The Częstochowa Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the city of Częstochowa during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of people confined ...

File:The factory building in the HASAG labor camp in Czestochowa..jpg, The factory building in the

labor camp in

File:U-Boot-Bunker Valentin (Farge), Bremen-Rekum.jpg, Submarine pen Valentin (Farge) in Bremen-Rekum (Author of picture: Olga Ernst, 2021) File:Bundesarchiv Bild 185-05-15, Bremen, U-Bootbunker "Valentin", Bau.jpg, Bremen-Farge.- Construction of the submarine bunker "Valentin", assembly of a roof truss with the help of a portal crane, 1944 (Unknown author, German Federal Archives) File:W21 Fifa 1929 Chemiepark.jpg, Agfa-Filmfabrik Wolfen 1929, producer of ''VISTRA'' synthetic fiber, a strategic material in German warfare,

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. Source: Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen GmbH File:Wolfen, Wasserturm und Kraftwerk.jpg, Wolfen, water tower and power plant on the site of the former ORWO film factory, producer of ''VISTRA'' synthetic fiber, a strategic material in German warfare,

. The plant was listed as a historic monument in

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it th ...

. Photo: current view, 2007. Author: M_H.DE File:Destroyed Carl Zeiss Factory in Jena.jpg, Destroyed

Zeiss Ikon Carl Zeiss AG (), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the ...

factory in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

. The image was taken by the U.S. military in 1945 and distributed by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. File:Magdeburg brennende BRABAG-Werke Januar 1945.jpg, burning

Brabag Brabag (Braunkohle Benzin AG) was a German firm, planned in 1933 and operating from 1934 until 1945, that distilled synthetic aviation fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline, lubricants, and paraffin wax from lignite. It was an industrial cartel firm closely ...

factory in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

, hit by Allied bombing, January 1945. File:BRABAG Böhlen nach Luftangriff im Mai 1944.jpg,

Böhlen Böhlen () is a town in Saxony, Germany, south of Leipzig. Its main features are a small airport and a power-plant. It is located in the newly built Neuseenland, the lakes created in the former open-pit mining areas. History The first docum ...

after an air raid in May 1944. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00834, Friedrichshafen, Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin.jpg, Construction of the German airship

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin LZ 127 ''Graf Zeppelin'' () was a German passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. Named after the German airship pioneer Ferdina ...

by the Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH (ZLT) in

Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen ( or ; Low Alemannic: ''Hafe'' or ''Fridrichshafe'') is a city on the northern shoreline of Lake Constance (the ''Bodensee'') in Southern Germany, near the borders of both Switzerland and Austria. It is the district capital (''K ...

(Lake Constance) in an airship hangar. Source: German Federal Archives. File:"The 90th Division discovered this Reichsbank wealth, SS loot, and Berlin museum paintings that were removed from Berlin - NARA - 540134.tif, The 90th Division discovered this

Reichsbank The ''Reichsbank'' (; 'Bank of the Reich, Bank of the Realm') was the central bank of the German Reich from 1876 until 1945. History until 1933 The Reichsbank was founded on 1 January 1876, shortly after the establishment of the German Empi ...

wealth, SS loot, and Berlin museum paintings that were removed from

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

during

, 15 April 1945. Source:

NARA The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It ...

-540134, American Commission For the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments In War Areas. (06/23/1943 - 06/30/1946). File:Saksa sõjavangid Klooga koonduslaagri ohvreid ühishauda matmas.jpg, German prisoners of war burying the victims of the

Klooga concentration camp Klooga concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp complex established in September 1943 in Harju County, during World War II, in German-occupied Estonia near the village of Klooga. The Vaivara camp comple ...

in a mass grave in 1944. The camp near

Klooga, Estonia Klooga is a small borough () in Lääne-Harju Parish in Harju County in northern Estonia. At the 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 1,203, of which the Estonians were 642 (53.4%). During the German occupation in World War II, Klooga c ...

in German occupied North-West

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

was notorious for wanton killings, epidemics and working conditions. Most of the prisoners were Jews. File:Vereinigte Stahlwerke 1930.jpg,

Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG The Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG (VSt or Vestag, ''United Steelworks'') was a German industrial conglomerate producing coal, iron, and steel in the interbellum and during World War II. Founded in 1926, economic pressures (decreasing prices and excess ...

, Niederrheinische Hütte,

Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ...

, between circa 1930 and circa 1940. File:Hydrierwerk Pölitz 1942.jpg, Hydrogenation plant in Pölitz, 1942, before destruction by Allied bombing from late April 1943 onward, leading to 70% of the town being destroyed. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-941, Essen, zerstörte Krupp-Werke, Luftaufnahme.jpg, Devastated Krupp Works in Essen, aerial view, April 1945. Source: German Federal archives, image No. 146-941. File:Heinrich Himmler, IG Farben Auschwitz plant, July 1942.jpeg,

Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was of the (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of th ...

, head of the SS, visiting the IG Farben plant, Auschwitz III, in German-occupied Poland, July 1942. His visit included watching a gassing, while he was inspecting the expansion of Auschwitz II, the extermination camp, and Auschwitz III, an IG Farben (BASF) plant.For a description of the visit, see Peter Padfield, ''Himmler: Reichsführer-SS'', Henry Holt & Company, 1990, pp. 389–396.

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JewishVirtualLibrary.org: German Firms that Used Slave Labor During Nazi Era

Jewish Virtual Library: List of Major Companies Involved in the Concentration Camps
Source: Yewish Virtual Library – A Project of AICE, Chevy Chase, Maryland

Companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared go ...

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

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