Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe

Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe
Himmler inspecting stone quarries mined by prisoners of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp[1]
LocationGerman-occupied Europe, forced labour
PeriodWorld War II (1939–1945)

Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe (German: for 'German Economic Enterprises'), abbreviated DWB, was a project launched by Nazi Germany in World War II. Organised and managed by the Allgemeine SS, its aim was to profit from the use of slave labour extracted from the Nazi concentration camp inmates.

  1. ^ "List of 2,500 firms that employed forced labourers". ta7.de (in German). New Germany. 16 November 1999. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011 – via Internet Archive.