Totaleinsatz

Totaleinsatz (German: "total deployment") was a colloquial term of young Czechs for forced labour under German rule during World War II during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. 400,000 Czechs worked as forced labour in Germany. This was a subset of the Arbeitseinsatz for German men but with ambiguity as to the status of Czechs under the "Protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia. The Czech conscripted labourers as 'inferior Slavs' were generally were treated worse than the French and Dutch, but not as badly as de facto slave labourers like the Ukrainian Ostarbeiter.