Should Hitler have won WW2?

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If you want to build war material, do it with your own population and with a proper salary. But don't round up civilians at gun point and order them to make weapons for you.

Every country involved in WW2 had forced labor camps.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you have a source for Canada using forced labor in WW2? Especially those deliberately exposed to dangerous projects? I have one document that says POW labor was not approved until 1943, and those who did work did so on farms. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9207&context=etd

But I'm also reading conflicting reports that employing POW's wasn't popular, especially as they ended up fleeing.

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Do you have a source for Canada using forced labor in WW2? Especially those deliberately exposed to dangerous projects?

The big reason Canadian labour camps weren't a dangerous place, was that the war wasn't being fought on Canadian soil.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The big reason Canadian labour camps weren't a dangerous place, was that the war wasn't being fought on Canadian soil.

Or maybe Canadians in general just weren't interested in abusing their prisoners the same way the Germans did? For example, Jehovah's Witnesses were still persecuted by the Canadian government, but there where no stories of them being beaten up for it or had their heads cut off.