Charles Dick - Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour

This book is based on my PhD gained at Birkbeck College, London, and I should like to thank many people for helping me in my studies there. My first big debt of gratitude is to my doctoral supervisor, Nikolaus Wachsmann, for his wisdom and kindness in guiding me towards completion of the work. I am also deeply grateful to Christian Goeschel, Jan Rger, Orlando Figes, David Feldman, Jessica Reinisch, Julia Laite, Jerry White, Hilary Sapire and John Arnold for their advice and unfailing encouragement throughout my history studies at the college. I extend special thanks to Richard Overy and Chris Dillon for their generous advice and support, as well as to Christine Schmidt of the Wiener Library in London for her organisation of seminars and patient help in searches of the International Tracing Service database. I am grateful, too, to Ruth Bettina Birn for her generous assistance and suggestions, and to Felix Rmer of the German Historical Institute in London for his advice during conferences there. Among the numerous people who assisted me in my research in various archives, I should like to thank Jon Barstad of the National Archives of Norway in Oslo for his expert guidance. I am grateful to the dedicated staff at the Bundesarchiv branches in Ludwigsburg, Berlin and Freiburg, as well as to the Institut fr Zeitgeschichte in Munich and the Zwangsarbeit 19391945 archive. My thanks go out also to many former Reuters colleagues for inspirational discussions during lengthy country walks over the years. Finally, I owe an incalculable debt to my family for their love and support during this whole enterprise.