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    Labour battalions have been a form of alternative service or unfree labour in various countries in lieu of or resembling regular military service. In some...
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  • 12th (Labour), 13th (Works) and 14th (Labour) Battalions. The experience of an 18-year-old volunteer joining the 35th Training Reserve Battalion, part...
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    Aufbaudienst Organisation Todt Forced labour under German rule during World War II Labour Army Labour battalion Assault pioneer Construction soldier (East...
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    Ottoman labour battalions (Turkish: Amele Taburları, Armenian: Աշխատանքային գումարտակ, romanized: Ashkhatank’ayin gumartak, Greek: Τάγματα Εργασίας, romanized:...
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  • pre-existing Infantry Labour Companies and Infantry Labour Battalions into 203 Labour Companies. The Corps as formed also included Depot Labour Companies (renamed...
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    imposed an alternative to military service. Labour service was forced labour, performed by labour battalions conscripted by the German-allied Hungarian...
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    Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with...
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    their compulsory military service in the labour battalions and not the regular army. Forced labour battalions were instituted in Bulgaria in 1920 as a...
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  • the 96th Battalion, US Army Corps of Engineers, were stationed at a base outside of Townsville called Kelso Field. They were a labour battalion and their...
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  • with the "Free Albania" committee and the CIA. It was initially a labour battalion. Its primary mission was to deploy paratroopers into Albania to undermine...
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  • Turkish labor battalions (1941–1942)...
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    labour battalions. The word "temporary" in the OVTP's name presaged the genocide planned for them. On 29 January 1942, new all-Jewish forced labour battalions...
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  • of labour, a term invented by Karl Marx about the unemployed and under-employed in capitalist society Labour corps (disambiguation) Labour battalion This...
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  • Ost-Bau-Pionier-Bataillon 559 Bau-Bataillon 87 Bau-Bataillon 121 Bau-Bataillon 306 Labour battalion Pioneer (military) Military construction formation [ru] Organisation...
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    Maltese Labour Corps (MLC) was a labour unit raised in Malta during the First World War to support the British Army. It comprised two battalions of labourers...
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    Divisions; in December 1944, the Alpine Division "Monte Rosa" with some German battalions fought the Battle of Garfagnana with some success. As the situation became...
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    they were stopped in the area of Brześć Fortress and Kobryn by a four-battalion-strong improvised force under General Konstanty Plisowski. In the three-day-long...
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  • New Army battalions of the regiment: the 18th (Service) Battalion (a Bantam unit), the 19th (Reserve) Battalion and the 20th (Labour) Battalion. In 1920...
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    Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), was raised in Nova Scotia and was one of two predominantly Black battalions in Canadian military...
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    labour battalions under the banner of Services of Supply (SOS). The African Americans placed in these units often spent their days doing tough labour...
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    shops owned by Jews. In 1941, Jews were drafted for service in forced labour battalions. Those from throughout southern Transylvania were concentrated in...
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    non-combatant roles, serving in units such as the Army Bearer Corps and the labour battalions. A large number also served in combat in France, Turkey, Palestine...
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    conscripted Greek men of military age from Thrace and western Anatolia into Labour Battalions in which hundreds of thousands died. These conscripts, after being...
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    counterparts in traveling to the FPR Yugoslavia to volunteer in a labour battalion building a motorway in Zagreb. He returned to Yugoslavia the following...
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    The 28th (Māori) Battalion, more commonly known as the Māori Battalion (Māori: Te Hokowhitu a Tū), was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Army that...
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    21 September 1943. The Germans operated a Nazi prison and a forced labour battalion for Jews in the city. The Statue of Lenin on Myru Avenue was toppled...
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  • trees of dwarfs and twins. After 7 months, Grant was sent to forced labour battalion and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. When she was liberated...
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  • limitation, Seeckt created the Black Reichswehr as purportedly civilian "labour battalions" (Arbeitskommandos) attached to regular Reichswehr units. The Arbeitskommandos...
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  • This is a list of battalions of the Devonshire Regiment, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958. When the 11th (North...
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  • This is a list of battalions of the King's Regiment (Liverpool), which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958. When the...
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