In 1942, architect Albert Speer was placed in charge of Germany’s Economics Ministry. The war required large-scale employment of forced laborers. To supply the Third Reich with slave labor, the Nazis abducted 12 million people from twenty countries, the majority from Central and Eastern Europe. Many died from mistreatment, malnutrition, or torture. Others became civilian casualties of Allied shelling. Jews were also subject to forced labor in ghettos and work camps before being sent to death camps for extermination. Org.Todt, a civil and engineering organization named for its founder Fritz Todt, administered the construction of the concentration camps used to supply German industry with a steady flow of workers from 1943-1945. Read more about Nazi Germany in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
