Title: Sprengstoff im Harz
Subtitle: zur Normalität des Verbrechens: Zwangsarbeit in Clausthal-Zellerfeld
First published: 1998
Description: Sprengstoff im Harz. Zur Normalität des Verbrechens: Zwangsarbeit in Clausthal-Zellerfeld. [Explosives in the Harz Mountains. On the normality of crime; forced labour in Clausthal-Zellerfeld] 
248 pages, 60 illustrations, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1998.
Who is interested today in learning that 4 000 Russian and Polish forced labourers had to work in a ammunition factory in the forest of Clausthal-Zellerfeld filling anti-tank mines? 
While the threat posed to the drinking water supplies of Lower Saxony as a result of the contamination of the soil in this part of the Harz mountains is a hotly discussed political topic, the history of the people who were forced during the Second World War to work with highly toxic chemicals when making explosives and munitions is ignored. I am not concerned with showing how special such a place is, but rather how ordinary it is.
Subjects: Concentration camps, Forced labor, Weapons industry, forced labour, ammunition factory, russian and polish forced labourers, contamination of the soil, World War II
Places: Germany, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony/Germany, Harz Mountains
People: Jacob Verschoor
Time periods: 1933-1953, 1936-1945
LC classification: HD4875.G4 P535 1998