• service record booklet. Wehrpflichtiger – “Draftee”. A conscript soldier. Werkschutz – "factory guard" industrial plant protection service and security police...
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    auxiliary units, including detachments of the Bahnschutz (rail guard), Werkschutz (factory guard) and the Polish Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans in Poland)...
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    renamed the "White Russian Factory Protection" (German: Weissrussischer Werkschutz) on 2 October. Skorodumov was elderly, ill, and not well known to the...
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    counterintelligence, public relations, and head of the plant police (Werkschutz) 12 years; sentence commuted to time served on January 31, 1951, and released...
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    special camps guarded by privately paid police services known as the Werkschutz. They worked an average of 12 hours a day, six days a week. They were...
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    workers were led to the factory under the escort of industrial guards (Werkschutzs) or Ukrainians. When the ghetto was liquidated in 1943, Kraków Jews who...
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    (Criminal police); Bahnschutz (railroad and transport police); and the Werkschutz, who kept order and guarded industrial plants. They were supported by...
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    Other divisions were making furs and wool sweaters also, guarded by the Werkschutz police. Some 15,000 Jews were working in the ghetto for Walter C. Többens...
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    control and fire service were supervised by the company guards (German: Werkschutz). Their responsibilities included as well banning any contacts between...
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  • would be there at one time. The labor camp was originally run by the Werkschutz, the Factory protection police, and their leader Gotthold Stein, but was...
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    Other divisions were making furs and wool sweaters also, guarded by the Werkschutz police. Some 15,000 Jews were working for Többens in the Warsaw Ghetto...
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  • general strike. In case of a conflict they counted on support from the Werkschutz, the paramilitary factory guard employed by the USIA and manned by communists...
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