The national-foreigner legal divide preexisted and outlived the Nazi labor system

Evidence

The Nazis took exploitation of rightless migrants to an extreme which can only be compared with slavery, yet its legal core - the sharp division between the status of national and foreigner - was to be found both in earlier and later foreign labor systems (Castles and Miller, The Globalization of Migration Since 1945 After World War II, international migration expanded in volume and geographical scope. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3858

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the conceptual apparatus of Nazi exploitation was not exceptional but a continuum of the citizen/foreigner distinction available to all modern states is dense and paradigm-shifting about legal hierarchy itself.