Women brought from the USSR for forced labor in Germany arrived at the Berlin-Wilhelmshagen transit camp, 1942

Beginning in the spring of 1942, nearly three million men and women were rounded up under threat of violence and other forms of retaliation in areas of the Soviet Union occupied by the Wehrmacht. The average age of the deportees was 20, but many were substantially younger, at just 15 or 16.
 
Of the 11 million slave laborers the Nazis rounded up to work in Germany, it was Soviet citizens – whom Nazi bureaucrats lumped together with other Eastern and Central European captives and referred to as Ostarbeiter – that were by far the largest single group. They were also treated with particular brutality; in the Nazis’ depraved hierarchy of nationalities, Ostarbeiter occupied the bottom rung.
 
Женщины, привезенные из СССР на принудительные работы в Германию, прибыли в транзитный лагерь Berlin-Wilhelmshagen
 
Photo by Gerhard Gronefeld
Фото: Герхард Гронефельд
 
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