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arctic-hands · 2 years ago

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Someone else on one of my genealogical groups asked for how to access records on the Service du travail obligatoire, France's slave labor program to Nazi Germany. I've been looking for online access to those records for years since I found my great-grandparents in the Arolsen Archive as forced laborers in Munich. I can't help this person because I still haven't found that resource so I'm throwing it out here, anyone know where I and this other person (whom I am presuming is also American) can find records or other resources?

#France #Vichy France #French history #World War II #WWII #service du travail obligatoire #forced labor #WWII military fetishists will be blocked #still rambling about ancestry #I still have no idea what g-grandparents did to piss off the Nazis but I'm proud of them for doing it #*he* may have been part of the Service but *she* is recorded as being in Munich as slave labor the year before that went into effect #g-grandfather may have been part Roma too #and I've been told by others in these groups that French Roma/Romani often skipped the camps and went straight to slave labor #if he was part Roma it might be why his mother took him as a toddler and fled fascist Italy #mussolini also forced the expulsion of Roma out of Italy and into neighboring countries so that also could be how they ended up in France #if the Roma theory is accurate anyway #if he was then based on my DNA results and GEDmatch interpretations then he and his mother weren't fully Roma #but it's not like fascists would have cared and taken that into consideration #nazis tw #my great grandparents remain a mystery to me and my great-great grandparents even moreso

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