Forced labour in Baltic states in 1941–1944

This article presents the characteristics of the German labor policy in the Baltic region during World War II in the period of 1941–1944. Among these were – the inhumanity of the German «labor policies», the racial component of the ideology of «labor policy», relationship of «labor policy» and the «extermination of work», the management of local authorities and ethnic conflicts. In this described the labor policy, which was balanced between the «protection» of the majority of the population of the Baltic, «the hunt for the people» when it came to the Slavic minorities and the destruction of Jews and Gypsies.