A Cornerstone of the Nazi State 
Logic and Logistic of Forced Labour

The Nazi forced labour began with – social offices.  At first they obliged recipients of social assistance, provided they were “antisocials”, Roma, Sinti or Jews, to undertake physical activities for their communes: forced labour as a means of exclusion and persecution.

When greater numbers of men were needed at the Front the German industry rapidly ran out of workers. The Nazi State took replacements from occupied lands, at first through recruitment but soon by deportation. The General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment, an authority set up expressly for this purpose, ran the exploitation of millions of forced labourers in which departments at all levels took part.

The National Socialist ideological racist madness here worked against their economic interests: Jews, Roma and Sinti landed in the extermination camps
even though they could be most useful as forced labour and the treatment of East European workers was so bad that the quality of their work suffered from it.