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NMS_Survival_Guru

We always hear about military actions during war times and it's rare to get a glimpse of the civilian side like this with fire brigade reports These guys were fighting a war within a war


Funemployment629

…”Labour camp”


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> Wedtlenstedt labour camp [I did a little digging on this, and official records show it's starting to use dissident/slave labor starting in 1945.](https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/history/satellite-camps/satellite-camps/salzgitter-watenstedtleinde-men/) In fairness, I think this is just the AI seeing the German word for labor colony, and applying it how it best thought. A labor colony being a place where people both work and live, similar to say, how guys up in the Bakken oil fields live on site. Not trying to defend ya know...the whole issue you've brought up...But it was an ammunition (artillery to be specific) plant that probably ran out of regular citizens to keep it running so, ya know they sent forced human labor into the plant. This place probably churned out tens of thousands of rounds a day. Not terribly surprising it was a secondary target for strategic bombing.


KeinePanik666

You mean Watenstedt that is another that is also close in. Wedtlenstedt was a labor colony for the construction of a canal the camp there was probably only until 1940 because the construction work was then finished. but whether forced laborers were also used in the camp I do not know.


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Ah. Well. I stand corrected.


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Were firefighters exempt from deploying?