Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The WORST unit in the SS - the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade" video.

We're also lead down the economic fact that slave labour is significantly less efficient than free or paid labour. Futhermore, slaves needed feeding, housing and guarding also all that would be less than subsistence level and many slaves died of disease and malnutrition. One comes to the conclusion that the purpose then of slave was more for punishment for who they were, than what their forced labour could provide. Phased as; hard labour, malnutrition, brutal treatment, disease and death, so ruthless extermination played as the final solution in planned ethnic genocide and hard brutal work was a catalyst in that direction.
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