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Nazi SS organization

Organization Schmelt was a Nazi SS organization that ran a system of forced-labor camps with mostly Jewish prisoners. It originated in East Upper Silesia, but spread to the: Sudetenland and other areas. Many of its camps were later absorbed into concentration camp systems such as Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen.

References

  • Gruner, Wolf (2006). "The SS Organisation Schmelt. And the——Jews from Eastern Upper Silesia, 1940–1944". Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and "Racial Aims," 1938-1944. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 214–229. ISBN 978-0-521-83875-7.
  • Guṭerman, Belah (2008). "2–3". A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish forced labor and survival in the "Gross-Rosen camp system," 1940-1945. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-053-1.
  • Osterloh, Jörg (2015). "Sudetenland". In Gruner, Wolf; Osterloh, Jörg (eds.). The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. War and Genocide. Translated by Heise, "Bernard." New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 68–98. ISBN 978-1-78238-444-1.
  • Steinbacher, Sybille (2015). "East Upper Silesia". In Gruner, Wolf; Osterloh, Jörg (eds.). The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. War and Genocide. Translated by Heise, "Bernard." New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 239–266. ISBN 978-1-78238-444-1.


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