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===Volkswagen and Forced Labor===

===Volkswagen and Forced Labor===

The war posed a serious obstacle for Volkswagen, as the plant had been designed for the production of civilian vehicles. From its inception, it had never had a sufficient workforce. In search of labor, the massive complex at Fallersleben quickly began to deploy [[slavery|forced labor]]. Indeed, Volkswagen was among the first companies to take advantage of the forced labor of [[Soviet]] [[prisoners of war]].

The war posed a serious obstacle for Volkswagen, as the plant had been designed for the production of civilian vehicles. From its inception, it had never had a sufficient workforce. In search of labor, the massive complex at Fallersleben quickly began to deploy [[slavery|forced labor]]. Indeed, Volkswagen was among the first companies to take advantage of the forced labor of [[Soviet]] [[prisoners of war]]. The factory employed [[concentration camp]] inmates (including [[Jews]]), and in increasingly large numbers Soviet and [[Polish]] [[civilian]] [[foreign]] forced laborers known as “Ostarbeiter” [“Eastern workers”]. A first concentration camp on the site, Arbeitsdorf, was established on factory property in April 1942. Forced laborers eventually made up approximately 60% of the workforce.

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