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Organization Schmelt was a **** SS
organization that ran a
system of forced-labor
camps with
mostly Jewish prisoners. It
originated in East
Upper Silesia...
- the new
Organization Schmelt formed on the
orders of
Heinrich Himmler. It was
named after its
leader SS-Oberführer
Albrecht Schmelt. The
company was put...
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October 1940,
Schmelt set up
headquarters in
Sosnowiec and
created a
labor camp
system that
would become known as
Organisation Schmelt.
Schmelt built a highly...
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member of the
Organization Schmelt (Dienststelle
Schmelt). The
selections of Jews were
carried out by
officials from the
Schmelt department, in particular...
- Saul Friedländer
wrote that the
Beuthen Jews were from the
Organization Schmelt labor camps and had been
deemed unfit for work.
According to Christopher...
- 1941 in East
Upper Silesia, Jews in forced-labor
camps operated by the
Schmelt Organization deemed "unfit for work"
began to be sent in
groups to Auschwitz...
- were
deported to
camps servicing German state projects of
Organization Schmelt, and the war
profiteering ****
companies controlled by SS-WVHA and Reichsarbeitsdienst...
- camp, but it also
hosted many of the forced-labor
camps of
Organization Schmelt and
seventeen ghettos,
including Sosnowiec Ghetto, Będzin Ghetto, and Dąbrowa...
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visit by
Slovak government officials to
several camps run by
Organization Schmelt,
which imprisoned Jews in East
Upper Silesia to
employ them in
forced labor...
- of a
network of over 160
camps run by an SS organization,
Dienststelle Schmelt. The
existence of this
group of
camps is
largely unknown to the general...
