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Arbeit Macht Frei (“work will set you free”) gate at KZ Sachsenhausen

Todt-Arbeiter badge

Polish-forced-workers’ Zivilarbeiter badge

Arbeitsbuch Für Ausländer (Workbook for Foreigner) identity document

“Obligations of a worker during his or her stay in Germany”

Street round-up (Polish łapanka [waˈpanka]) of random civilians to be deported to Germany for forced labour

Female forced laborers wearing “OST” (Ostarbeiter) badges are liberated from a camp near Lodz.

Ukrainians from Cherkashchyna depart to Nazi Germany to serve as labor force

A Russian-language Nazi poster

“Let’s do agricultural work in Germany. Report immediately to your Vogt” from recruiting post

Ostarbeiter badge

German notice from 30 September 1939 in occupied Poland

Woman with an Ostarbeiter badge at the Auschwitz subsidiary IG-Farbenwerke factory

Registration of Jews by Nazis for forced labor

Polish Jews are lined up by German soldiers to do forced labour

Stairs of Death in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp

Ostarbeiterin from Kiev performing domestic labor

14-year-old prisoner at the Wehrmacht Automotive Repair Works

Prisoners in the construction of the U-boat at Valentin submarine pens

French mechanics at Siemens in Berlin

“Jews must work”

Soviet POWs clear the way for Wehrmacht column

Paramilitary police with workers

Jews build air-raid trenches under the supervision of RAD

Polen, Zwangsarbeiter in Gewehrfabrik