German Equipment Works

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

German Equipment Works (Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke, DAW) was a

Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland. DAW outfitted the German military with boots, uniforms and materials on the eastern front at a windfall profit,[1] and provided wood and metal supplies, as well as reconstruction work on railway lines and freight trains.[2]

History

The business enterprise was founded in

Auschwitz concentration camps, where forced labor was used. Work was later expanded to Majdanek, Janowska, Stutthof
, and other concentration camps.

Deutsche Ausrustungswerke (DAW) was the first SS enterprise established in the

Waffen SS clothing workshops, the SS garrison, a glass factory, a truck and SS troop supply depot, and a prisoner lab producing pharmaceuticals.[3]

By mid-1942, all death camps of

Odilo Globočnik directed the operation of DAW plants in Lublin and at the Old Airfield camp, the Waffen SS Standortverwaltung workshops and SS Clothing Works, and the police Truppenwirtschaftlager Supply Depot of the HSSPF. All labourers and guards were supplied by Globočnik.[3]

Elizabeth B. White wrote, "The prime example of cooperation between the WVHA and Globočnik was the East Industries Inc. (Ostindustrie GmbH, or Osti), which was founded in March 1943 for the express purpose of using Jewish labor and also exploiting machinery and raw materials formerly owned by Jews in industrial workshops." Therefore, the equipment used by DAW was not German to begin with, but Polish. Osti took over DAW factories in 1943.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1107056824
    .
  2. ^ "Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (DAW)" (PDF). Offenes Archiv, Hamburg. 1/8 – via Open Archives, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d Elizabeth B. White (1997). "Annual 7: Chapter 1". Majdanek: Cornerstone of Himmler's SS Empire in the East. Los Angeles, California: Simon Wiesenthal Center, Multimedia Learning. Archived from the original on 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
  4. ^ "Założenia i budowa (Purpose and construction, selection of photographs)". Majdanek concentration camp. KL Lublin Majdanek.com.pl. Archived from the original on January 2, 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-18. Concentration camp name change 9.04.1943.
  5. ISBN 0300039247
    . Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  6. ^ McVay, Kenneth (1984). "The Construction of the Treblinka Extermination Camp". Yad Vashem Studies, XVI. Jewish Virtual Library.org. Retrieved 17 December 2015.

References

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Equipment_Works&oldid=1211873947"