Federal agents said the defendants paid the workers a pittance off the books, then used the money they saved on labor to buy Mercedes and nice big houses in the suburbs.

NPR: Baltimore Businesses Targeted for Illegal Workers

The automobile industry was headed for a calamity, and two of the great auto companies in America were saved by a financial agreement that had management, labor and government restructuring the company.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

On Tuesday the New York Public Library opened an exhibit of 300 Holocaust-era letters saved by Sala Garncarz, a Jewish woman who, as a teen, spent five years in the labor camps.

NPR: Letters Offer Glimpse of Life in Nazi Labor Camps