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    Ostarbeiter (German: [ˈɔstˌʔaʁbaɪtɐ], lit. "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and...
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    Woman with Ostarbeiter badge at the IG Farben plant in Auschwitz...
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    with a similar number of workers in this category from other countries. Ostarbeiter ("Eastern workers") – Soviet and Polish civil workers, mostly rounded...
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    Woman with Ostarbeiter badge at work at IG-Farbenwerke in Auschwitz...
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    2017. Retrieved February 1, 2023. Steinert, Johannes-Dieter. Kleine Ostarbeiter: Child Forced Labor in Nazi Germany and German Occupied Eastern Europe...
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    Militärinternierte ('military internees'), Zivilarbeiter ('civilian workers'), Ostarbeiter ('Eastern workers'), and Hilfswillige ('volunteer') POW workers.[citation...
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    disease. 60,000 were forcibly transported to Germany as slave workers (Ostarbeiter). Among these was Boris Romanchenko. The 96-year old survivor of forced...
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    Among the Polish and Soviet female forced labour (German: Zivil- und Ostarbeiter) unintended pregnancies were common due to rampant sexual abuse by their...
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    – were sexually exploited by German men. In Brandenburg, two Polish Ostarbeiter teens who returned home to Kraków in advanced stage of pregnancy, reported...
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    : Ваш выбор ЦИРЗ, 1996. – pp. 735–38. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. Ostarbeiters and POW in Third Reich and Their Repatriation) (Russian) Evdokimov, Rostislav...
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    Furthermore, in 1945, about 100 filtration camps were set for repatriated Ostarbeiter, POWs, and other displaced persons, which processed more than 4,000,000...
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    Woman with Ostarbeiter badge in Auschwitz...
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    Soviet Union in Western Europe. About 3 million had been forced laborers (Ostarbeiters) in Germany and occupied territories. The Soviet POWs and the Vlasov...
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    main goals were to unite the working class with the prosecuted people, Ostarbeiters and prisoners of war in a large movement that would overthrow the Nazi...
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  • German government attempted to enroll Soviet citizens voluntarily for the Ostarbeiter program. Originally this effort worked well, but the news of the terrible...
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  • the children of disabled and mentally ill persons. Forced abortions of Ostarbeiter for instance was referenced in documents from the Trials of War Criminals...
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    November and beginning of December 1941. “Recruitment” of civilians as Ostarbeiter began in December 1941. In 1950, about twelve Italian POWs (prisoners...
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    Cherkashchyna Ukrainians being deported to Germany to serve as slave labor (Ostarbeiter), 1942...
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    WWII the company profited from (expropriated) Jewish real estate and Ostarbeiter; after the war from the economic boom. The first store in the USA was...
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    Female slave worker wearing an Ostarbeiter badge at the former SS Osti Arbeitslager camp in occupied Poland, January 1945...
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    forced labor, mainly French Fremdarbeiter, "foreign workers", and Russian Ostarbeiter ("eastern workers"). The key to the Flak area were three huge Flak towers...
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    when Soviet troops moved into East Prussia, large numbers of enslaved Ostarbeiter ("Eastern workers") were freed, and knowledge of the suffering and deaths...
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    been forced laborers (Ostarbeiter) in Germany and occupied territories. Surviving POWs, about 1.5 million, repatriated Ostarbeiter[clarification needed]...
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  • for the aircraft, and known as Bobrek concentration camp. It employed ostarbeiter slave workers as well as Auschwitz prisoners in its factory. The main...
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  • (blue eyes, light hair) would be allowed to serve Germans as slaves (Ostarbeiter). Some recent estimates raise the number of Belarusians who perished...
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    academia.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2014. The order to transport these Ostarbeiter (and therefore for their liquidation) came from the Arbeitsamt Commission...
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  • citizens. By January 1945, there were 989 forced laborers, 643 of them "Ostarbeiter", predominantly from Ukraine, and 316 "Westarbeiter" from France and...
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    population. Thousands of Crimean Tatars were forcibly transferred to work as Ostarbeiter in German factories under the supervision of the Gestapo in what were...
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    Ostarbeiter on lathe at Monowitz, identified by "Ost" badge on her clothes...
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