Organization Schmelt

Organization Schmelt was a Nazi SS organization that ran a system of forced-labor camps with mostly Jewish prisoners. It originated in East Upper Silesia, but spread to the Sudetenland and other areas. Many of its camps were later absorbed into concentration camp systems such as Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen.

References

• Gruner, Wolf (2006). "The SS Organisation Schmelt and the Jews from Eastern Upper Silesia, 1940–1944". Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 214–229. ISBN 978-0-521-83875-7.
• Guṭerman, Belah (2008). "2–3". A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish forced labor and survival in the Gross-Rosen camp system, 1940-1945. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-053-1.
• Osterloh, Jörg (2015). "Sudetenland". In Gruner, Wolf; Osterloh, Jörg (eds.). The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. War and Genocide. Translated by Heise, Bernard. New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 68–98. ISBN 978-1-78238-444-1.
• Steinbacher, Sybille (2015). "East Upper Silesia". In Gruner, Wolf; Osterloh, Jörg (eds.). The Greater German Reich and the Jews: Nazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935–1945. War and Genocide. Translated by Heise, Bernard. New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 239–266. ISBN 978-1-78238-444-1.