{"id":641,"date":"2021-04-15T22:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/?page_id=641"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:21:07","slug":"zwangsarbeit-fuer-siemens-im-konzentrationslager-ravensbrueck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/zwangsarbeit-fuer-siemens-im-konzentrationslager-ravensbrueck\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Labour for Siemens in the Ravensbr\u00fcck Concentration Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 8 June 1942, Siemens began building twenty work barracks in close proximity to the Ravensbr\u00fcck women\u2019s concentration camp. Siemens was thus able to use forced labour to build a factory that was less vulnerable to air raids. Some 150 German skilled workers from Siemens and between 2,000 to 2,300 female forced labourers worked there. After taking an aptitude test, the women had to work twelve-hour shifts winding coils and building toggle switches, microphones and measuring instruments in piecework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/spule-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/spule-794x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Spule, 1944\/1945 (c) \u00a9 Archiv der Mahn- und Gedenkst\u00e4tte Ravensbr\u00fcck\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This drawing shows a forced labourer working for Siemens in the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp. She is sitting at a machine that produces spools used in the production of electronic devices. The drawing was made by the painter Astrid Blumensaadt-Petersen, who was also a camp inmate in Ravensbr\u00fcck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am 8. Juni 1942 wird im Auftrag von Siemens mit dem Bau von insgesamt 20 Arbeitsbaracken in unmittelbarer N\u00e4he des Frauenkonzentrationslagers Ravensbr\u00fcck begonnen. So errichtet Siemens ein weniger durch Luftangriffe gef\u00e4hrdetes Werk mit billiger Zwangsarbeit. Dort arbeiten insgesamt 150 deutsche Fachkr\u00e4fte von Siemens und durchschnittlich 2.000 bis 2.300 Zwangsarbeiterinnen. Nach einem Eignungstest m\u00fcssen die Frauen [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siemens.ns-zwangsarbeit.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}