[Rick Lee]

As for the slave labor thing, remember that many of the able-bodied, working age German men weren't exactly standing around, looking for factory jobs. They were serving in the Wehrmacht and getting killed at a rate of several thousand per day, mostly in Russia. Over a period of 4-6 yrs., this tended to thin the labor pool a bit. I make no defense whatsoever of the Nazis' use of slave labor to further their war machine (nor for any other purpose). But Albert Speer had his orders, they made their way to down to the German industrialists and they did what they had to do to keep the assembly lines moving. I don't think anyone anybody refused their factory orders from the German gov't in those days.