Im Totaleinsatz.
Forced Labour of the Czech population for the Third Reich

The exhibition deals with the gradual development of Nazi forced labor in the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the context of Nazi occupation policy. It shows the mobilisation of the Czech population to forced labour of whole years. The exhibition documents the employment and living conditions of the Czech forced labourers as well as the system of work and punishment in the work camps. The slave labor of concentration camp prisoners as well as the specific situation of the Czech Jews and Roma are also presented in detail. Around 250 mainly personal documents and photographs can be seen, some of which are shown for the first time in Germany. Particularly noteworthy are the unique pictures of the Czech photographer Zdeněk Tmej from the years of his forced labor 1942-1944. An exhibition section is dedicated to the forced labor of the Czechs in Berlin. A film with excerpts from interviews with survivors and thematic reminders complete these testimonies.

The exhibition can be lend from the German-Czech Future Fund.

Erinnerung bewahren.
Slave- and Forced Labourers of the Third Reich from Poland 1939-1945

The theme of this exhibition is the history of the 2.8 to 3 million Polish men, women and children who were forced to work in German war and agriculture during the Second World War. Boards with photos and documents, original objects, biographies as well as a film illustrate the fate of these people.

The Polish version of the exhibition was prepared by the "Polish-German Reconciliation" Foundation in Warsaw and has been shown since 2005 in various Polish cities. In cooperation with the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre an updated German version was developed, which can be seen at further locations in Germany.

The exhibition can be lent out through the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation.