"Ostarbeiter" (eastern workers) were mostly eastern European women brought to Germany for forced labor. [LCID: 85581]
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"Ostarbeiter" (eastern workers)

"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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