Arbeit Macht Frei

Richard Donkin

Chapter Chapter 14 in The History of Work, 2010, pp 189-201 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Otto Ambros was one of Germany’s most outstanding talents in the production of synthetic rubber. In the winter of 1940 he was asked by the head of his company to evaluate two possible factory sites for a new European plant. Ambros had been the protégé of Richard Willstaetter, the Nobel laureate for chemistry who had been driven out of his native country because of his Jewish faith. Now the laureate’s former pupil was a board director of IG Farben, the chemical conglomerate and Germany’s biggest company.1 Its supervisory board leader, Carl Krauch, had approached him to check out the two potential sites. One site was in Norway. The other was in Polish Silesia.

Keywords: Concentration Camp; Labor Shortage; Protestant Work Ethic; Labor Camp; Camp System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230282179_14

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