Menschenbassin Belgien
Anwerbung, Deportation und Zwangsarbeit im Ersten Weltkrieg
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9739918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 514 |
| Pages | 760-762 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ceq130 |
| OpenAlex | W1966527654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The title of this book refers to the German chemical-industry magnate Carl Duisberg's famous exhortation to the Prussian War Minister to go ahead and ‘open up that big reservoir of people that is Belgium!’ The day was 16 September 1916. With Germany's manpower resources stretched thin, recruiting drives in the occupied countries disappointing, and the Hindenburg Programme crystallising wish-dreams of streamlining the war effort, Belgium, with its hundreds of thousands of unemployed men, provided for by an international aid programme presented in Germany as lavish, appeared as a vast untapped resource. The call to enlist Belgian workers forcibly for the German war economy had become a clamour. In October 1916 the deportations began. The recruitment, deportation and forced labour of men from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War is the subject of Jens Thiel's book, first presented as a dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2003—and a
Ancient history · Archaeology · Deportation · Economic history · First world war · German · Immigration · Library science · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Subject (documents · World War II · European history and politics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |