- Leistungsernaehrung Archived Message
Posted by Keith-264
on April 20, 2020, 9:26 am
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In 1942, Ostarbeiter in the mining industry of upper Silesia had been divided into three classes; average performers received the ration, under-performers had ration cuts and over-performers were rewarded with the rations cut from the under-performers. Food was diverted to those giving the best return on calories. The people who fell below the norm were threatened by malnutrition and accelerated under-performance. By the end of 1944 this had become the standard practice towards Ostarbeiter. "...it is crucial to distinguish between logics operating at the macro and micro level and to consider the time factor. Whereas the incarceration or more and more potential workers in murderous concentration camps was clearly irrational from the point of view of the overall war effort, from the point of view of the individual employer the concentration camps were often a godsend. Even in 1944, Himmler was still able to provide new workers. Though these people were quickly worn out, the advantage of the SS was precisely that they were able to offer their industrial clients an apparently limitless flow of new inmates. Tooze, The Wages of Destruction (2006) pp. 530-533 Look familiar? The favoured few get the medical equipment and care; the also rans, has beens and lebensunwertes lebens are abandoned. The PENHS is rid of excess medical staff and useless mouths. If a few celebs pop off all the better, that makes it easier to pretend that anyone can get it, especially after Boris Pfeffel did (allegedly). |
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