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OCR: The German- allied Hunaariar government established the Hungarian Labor Service in 1938 after banning Jews from military duty Between 1939 and 1945 Jewish men from 18 to 48 years were drafted into Labor Service brigades instead of the army These men were organized into military battalions under the command army officers and were initialiy employed in mining and construction projects for Hungarian industriai firms AS Hungarian invoivement in World War IT increased, more Jewish men were drafted into the Labor Service Often working in the line of fire, these men Bnp trenches and tank traps, repaired roads, and cieared mine fieids for the Hungarian my On the Soviet front alone around 40 000 of these laborers died from maltreatment, exposure enemy fire, execution at the hands of the German init ...