Germany's Forced Labour

[clevischi]

I would like to share with you friends some of my TR women documents.

This is a group of Auslander Arbeiter, women that had been taken from theyr homeland, and had to work to Gross Deutschland war effort.

[clevischi]

And this is a very rare tickets sheet, the workers were paid with it, not with real money.

[Gaspare]

I think its a very small world..:biggrin:
May I ask where you got the Arbeitskartes from?

[clevischi]

1 - Militaria321
2 - German War Boot
3 - German War Boot

Have you seen these ones before?

[Gaspare]

Carlos, in the mid 1990's an old wartime archive was found in Ukraine. It had been sealed up in one of the Gov.buildings for years and when the USSR broke up and no one was watching anymore [or cared] it was literally broken into. That summer 1000's of these and other IDs as well as the reprinted photos , and all sorts of documents were sold on the street and at bazaars..

I came at the end and they were telling me all the SS pieces were sold to Englishmen and Germans but I was welcomed to go thru what was there from their pile.. I bought 20 or so SS soldbuchs ,all with the photos missing,, photos, 'Fragabodens',, I also bought a few hundred of the Arbeitsbooks and a few hundred Arbeitskartes.. I got rid of most quickly on eBay and local shows/auctions by me and held on to about 50 of each for myself.
Most I made photocopies of the covers and inside first page. I gotta look as I might even still have them!

2 you have I had from that 50. The woman with number 3480 on her ,and the other woman with number 78 or 28. I remember her and kept her for a while because of that special stamp on her!..

I eventually sold the 50 and now only have 10 or so that for one reason or another I really liked or thought were unique. Examples with the OST patch being wore, a few with the woman beaten up looking pretty bad etc. I still have them packed away...

The cover of the first page sometimes have multiple sheets glued in with the subcamp and workplace typed on them.. Almost every work camp listed in them can be traced back to a main camp like Dachau or Belsen etc...
Maybe I'll dig some out and post. Yes, a very small world indeed!

[clevischi]

Its a nice history, Gaspare. Thank you for letting me know it.

Will be a pleasure to see yours Id´s, please post them when you have some time.

Its a segment in my collection that i really like.

[Jungco]

Clevischi,
The tickets you talk about weren't just for the Ausländer but for the general German public. They are ration cards issued, in this case the four series, for all sorts of common goods, like clothes and food.
Jeff

[clevischi]

Thank you, Jeff. But ,Have the auslanders used this too?

[Jungco]

Clevischi,
I'm not sure. They would have to have something and I haven't seen any ration cards just for Ausländer in Gramny.
Jeff

[Gaspare]

Here's one of my keepers.. I kept it because I didn't have many Men in my gigantic lot let alone a young boy..

Also the info sticker inside front cover:

[Gaspare]

another favorite..

Front has foreign 'worker' wearing the dreaded OST patch!!

Inside front cover. Glued label with info. If I remember right ALL the ones I had, had at least one sticker over the original. I've seen as many as 4!!

[clevischi]

Thank you for showing some of your ones. These with some russian inscriptions are really nice. All mines have one sticker over the original.