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Certain acronyms and acronyms sometimes play leapfrog
A little history... history...
During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, hundreds of thousands of French workers were requisitioned and transferred to Germany to participate in the German war effort. The STO
was created on February 16, 1943, following the failure of the policy of voluntary work and liberation, which allowed 70,000 French workers to be present in Germany in 1942.
The Nazi government imposed STO to compensate for the shortage of manpower caused by sending many
German soldiers to the Eastern Front. French workers were the only Europeans to have been bound by their own national laws rather than by Austrian orderliness. This was the result of the Vichy government's greater autonomy compared to other occupied countries.
The exploitation of French labor by the Third Reich concerned compulsory workers (STO), voluntary workers attracted by remuneration or “taken” from La Relève companies and prisoners of war.
Between June 1942 and July 1944, between 600,000 and 650,000 French workers were sent to Germany,
to which were added the prisoners of war present in the country. France was the third largest supplier of forced labor after the Soviet Union and Poland, and it had the most skilled workers.
The STO was sometimes accused of not being disobedient and of being part of the German workforce.
After their repatriation to France, they were considered “deported workers”, but the memory of their involvement led them to oppose this designation. After a long political and legal battle, the associations of former
“deported workers” obtained the official designation of “forced workers of Nazi Germany”, but the designation “deported workers” was refused by the Court of Cassation on 28 March 2011.
NB : STO (Service du Travail Obligatoire). France, Allemagne, 1945.
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