Five Brothers and a War

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Major German companies used large numbers of forced laborers/slaves during the war.

PEOPLE USED AS SLAVE LABOR

COMPANY

LOGO

IG Farben

83,000

BASF

80,000

ThyssenKrupp

75,000

BMW

50,000

Daimler-Benz

40,000

Bosch

20,000

Audi

20,000

nazi germany Volkswagen

12,000

TOTAL

380,000

To put that 380,000 person number into context, if those people were standing in a line, the line would stretch 232 km (144 miles). That is just for those eight companies. It is estimated that the total number was almost 15,000,000 at one time or another, including millions of PoWs. That line would stretch 9,144 km (5,682 miles), the distance from Amsterdam to Los Angeles.

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