!["Ostarbeiter" (eastern workers) were mostly eastern European women brought to Germany for forced labor. [LCID: 85581]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1e520a97-37c3-4be6-8938-95e98a940a69.jpg)
"Ostarbeiter" (eastern workers) were mostly eastern European women brought to Germany for forced labor. They wore an "OST" identification patch (lower center of photograph) Germany, after 1942.
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