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Metamorphoses sign "Ost"

Patch for Eastern workers - It is a sign podtverzhdayushy posing the labor force in police records. "General provisions on the recruitment and use of Eastern workers", approved Himmler, 20 February 1942, first set the rules for accounting of labor in the Reich and the branding of its special mark (stripe size 70h77 mm with the inscription "OST"). The annex to the "Regulation on conditions for use of eastern workers", which was published in a collection of legal acts June 30 1942 (RGBl. I 1942, S.419), reads:
"Chairman of the house committee shall immediately after receiving the eastern workers to register them with the police in the community. Eastern employee is obliged to wear the sign of "Ost" on the right side of the chest on all items of outer clothing. Patches can be ordered in the formulation of a police accounting. "

By Letter of Instruction to the Gestapo (mailing 30.10.1942, AdGA Mayrhofen, Akten 1942),
"sign should be tightly sewn, not pinned with needles and pins"

example of what value was stripe, can serve as an excerpt from the recorded document (65.LHA Ko, Best. 662,6, Nr. 511, S. 8.):
"Russian who appear on the public dorogaz, streets and squares without much razrescheniya should detain and transfer to the police station. Detention shall be entitled to any party member. Russian workers are required to wear a well-fixed mark "Ost" in a conspicuous place on the right breast of his outer clothing, and at work without jackets - on its shirt. "

concept of" Eastern workers "was originally applied only to immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (in the range up to 1939). As the population of the Reich in the home and business turnover did not distinguish between these groups of workers and immigrants from the Baltic states, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, commissariats "western" areas were ordered to draw up documents for labor with a note:
"Attention! Not working east! "



Growing discontent Eastern workers such stigma (which is compared with wearing the star of David ") have tried to attributed to the reluctance of the workers blend all the national groups into one. Instead of lifting the stigma conducted a discussion about his move to the left arm - as a encourage the executive and disciplined workers (1943). In May 1944 the Russian-language newspapers (see "Ukrainian" № 18, May 3, 1944 and the Paris Gazette May 13, 1944) has information about the same content:
"Old sign" East "will be only those workers who, because of low production and grave breaches of discipline had not yet received the right to wear a new sign, because the new - a measure of gratitude to the German people for the high employment indicators Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian workers, a symbol of the fact that these workers no longer see the Bolsheviks, but representatives of the diligent Peoples buyout are associates in the defense and the building of Europe "

Finally, 19 June 1944 came to light police order on the labels of "Eastern workers" (RGBl. I 1944, S.147), according to which the mark has acquired an oval shape, and each national group - a recognizable symbol.

Bundesarchiv.de
Einsatzbedingungen für die Ostarbeiter. S. 105
NS-Propaganda für den "Arbeitseinsatz". S.37
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