Organization Schmelt Explained

Organization Schmelt was a Nazi SS organization that ran a system of forced-labor camps with mostly Jewish prisoners. It originated in East Upper Silesia, but spread to the Sudetenland and other areas. Many of its camps were later absorbed into concentration camp systems such as Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen.

References

• Book: Gruner . Wolf. Wolf Gruner . Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944 . 2006 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 978-0-521-83875-7 . en. The SS Organisation Schmelt and the Jews from Eastern Upper Silesia, 1940–1944. 214–229.
• Book: Guṭerman . Belah . A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish forced labor and survival in the Gross-Rosen camp system, 1940-1945 . 2008 . Berghahn Books . New York . 978-0-85745-053-1 . en . 2–3.
• Book: Osterloh, Jörg. Jörg Osterloh . Gruner . Wolf . Osterloh . Jörg. Heise. Bernard . The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. The Greater German Reich and the Jews . 2015. New York. War and Genocide . Berghahn Books . 978-1-78238-444-1 . 68–98 . en . Sudetenland.
• Book: Steinbacher . Sybille . Gruner . Wolf . Osterloh . Jörg. Heise. Bernard . The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. New York. War and Genocide. 2015 . Berghahn Books . 978-1-78238-444-1 . 239–266 . en . East Upper Silesia.