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Even at the beginning of the Second World War it had to be clear for the German military and economic leaders that it would not be possible to fight or even win a longlasting war without foreign workers. In the Second World War not only POWs but also civilians and prisoners of concentration camps were forced to work as slaves to continue Hitler’s war. In Salzburg, there were no big camps with thousands of slave workers, as existed in other regions of Germany. Mainly the slave workers, who were forced to work for the big power plant projects (“Tauernkraftwerke Kaprun-Glockner”, “Kraftwerk Weißsee”), lived in such circumstances. The first Polish POWs arrived in the Province of Salzburg in autumn of 1939 only a few weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Most of them were not detained in camps. They lived on farms, and their living conditions were better than those for the inmates of camps. Like in the First World War, prisoners of war had to work on farms to replace those men who served in the German Wehrmacht or other military formations. As mentioned, no big industrial plants for the arms sector existed in the “Reichsgau Salzburg”. Foreign forced labourers, POWs and civil workers were deployed to relatively little factories or handicraft businesses. In many cases the situation for this group of slave workers was similar to those, who worked on farms. Already in autumn 1941, the works at the construction sites of the “Reichsautobahn” (highway) around the city of Salzburg 1 Dir. Mag. Oskar Dohle MAS, Studies (History and Social studies, Geography and Economics) at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, 1995 Doctor’s degree at the University of Vienna (Dissertation about „Urfahr – from municipialty to municipal district 1914–1924“), 1992–1995 Advanced Master Studies at the Austrian Institute of Historical Research, Member of the Austrian Institute of Historical Research, since 1997 archivist and historian in the Salzburger Landesarchiv with focus on contemporary history, author of numerous local and regional historical publications especially about land and capital Salzburg and Upper Austria, since 2010 Director of the Salzburger Landesarchiv, since 2011/12 adjunct faculty at the University of Salzburg (department: History), mail: oskar.dohle@ salzburg.gv.at A R YK U ŁY

Slaves for Hitler’s war. Polish forced labourers in Salzburg during World War II