''Totaleinsatz'' (German: "total deployment" or "comprehensive mobilisation") refers to

forced labour under German rule during World War II The use of Slavery, slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany () and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale. It was a vital part of the Economics of fascism#Political economy of Nazi Germany, ...

during the

German occupation of Czechoslovakia German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

. A total of 400,000 Czechs worked as forced labour in Germany. This was a subset of the ''

Arbeitseinsatz ''Arbeitseinsatz'' () was a Forced labor in Germany during World War II, forced labour category of internment within Nazi Germany () during World War II. When German men were conscription, called up for military service, Nazi German authorities r ...

'' for German men, but with ambiguity as to the status of Czechs under the "Protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia. As ' inferior Slavs', Czech labourers were generally treated worse than the French and Dutch, but not as badly as ''de facto'' slave labourers like the Ukrainian ''

Ostarbeiter ' (, "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. The Germans started deporting civilians at the beginning ...

''.

References

{{reflist Military history of Czechoslovakia during World War II Nazi forced labour Labor in Czechoslovakia