Of the 1.65 million concentration camp prisoners deployed in Germany, at least 800,000 died; a further 300,000 prisoners were worked to death deliberately because they were Jews slated for ‘destruction through labour’. Including Soviet prisoners of war and Soviet and Polish civilian workers, even the official – and therefore also inherently conservative – figures show that at least 2.4 million people were worked to death in Germany itself following the military crisis of 1941
