Baudienst in occupied Kraków (suburban Czyżyny area of the General Government), c. 1941. Second from right, leaning against the wheel-barrel, is Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John-Paul II)
Agency overview
Formed
December 1940
Type
Labour battalions
Jurisdiction
Nazi Germany (General Government)
Employees
≈45,000
Parent agency
Reichsarbeitsdienst
Baudienst (from German, lit. "building service" or "construction service"), full name in German Baudienst im Generalgouvernement (Construction Service in the General Government), was a forced labour organization created by Nazi Germany in the General Government territory of occupied Poland during World War II. Baudienst was subordinate to the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD, lit. "Reich Labour Service").
Baudienst (from German, lit. "building service" or "construction service"), full name in German Baudienst im Generalgouvernement (Construction Service...
as the "Nisko or Lublin Plan". The Germans established and operated a Baudienst forced labour camp for Poles in Lublin. Many Poles from or associated...
crops on July 24, 1943, for not joining the forced labor battalions (Baudienst) when requested on October 2, 1943, for impeding the German Reconstruction...
subset of the Arbeitseinsatz program concerning 400,000 Czechs Polnischer Baudienst im Generalgouvernement, (Polish Construction Service in the General Government)...
the camp buildings, but left behind several barracks for future use by Baudienst. The work was finished by the end of the October, and all of the Jews...
The Germans also formed the Baudienst ("construction service") in several districts of the General Government. Baudienst servicemen were sometimes deployed...
Auftrieb in Talsperren". Österreichische Wochenschrift für den öffentlichen Baudienst. 19: 532, 567. 1913. Fillunger, P. (1914). "Neuere Grundlagen für die...
Ausrüstungswerke, the predecessor of Ostie owned and operated by the SS Baudienst, a conscript labour service run by German authorities in Occupied Poland...
innovative and enlightening. Himka noted that the young Polish men of the Baudienst yunaki took part in Jew hunts with particular relish, Grabowski recording...
(in German) Ludwig Brandl: „Österr.Monatsschrift für den öffentlichen Baudienst und das Berg- und Hüttenwesen.“ Jg. 1923,11.12., Artikel: „Die Ausgestaltung...
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