Author: MULLER-BRANDEBOURG. (Hermann Muller-Brandenburg).
Title: L'ouevre du Service du Travail allemand.
Description: Bruxelles (Berlin printed) 1940. Octavo publisher's printed wrapper; 32pp, four photo plates and a folding map. No.4 from the series La Force Economique du Reich. The author's name is spelled Brandebourg on the title and Brandenburg on the cover. ¶ The labour or work service in Germany seems still to be a topic that the French don't want to touch. Those who, later in the war, were conscripted rather than volunteers fared no better in the eyes of a public determined to perpetuate the myth that every French citizen was a member of the resistance - apart from a few too obvious bad apples, quickly executed, and any number of helpless women who had their heads shaved. Here the work service in place in Germany since 1933 is explained to the newly conquered of western Europe.

Keywords: social history sciences WWII France occupation Germany economics c20th political economy Nazis fascism propaganda