HASAG
HASAG (also known as Hugo Schneider AG, or by its original name in ) was a German metal goods manufacturer founded in 1863. Based in Leipzig, it grew from a small business making lamps and other small metal products by hand into a large factory and publicly traded company that sold its wares in several countries. During the Second World War, Hasag became a Nazi arms-manufacturing conglomerate with dozens of factories across German-occupied Europe using slave labour on a massive scale. Tens of thousands of Jews from Poland, and other prisoners, died producing munition for Hasag.
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- HASAG
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- Slave labour
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- Częstochowa - Hasag-Pelcery plaque 2.jpg
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- HASAG plant in Częstochowa, occupied Poland. Nearby plant at Skarżysko-Kamienna had an estimated death toll of 35,000 people before 1945
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- Hugo Schneider AG
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- Arms manufacturing
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