ARBEITSKARTE für ausländische Arbeitskräfte / Work card for a Polish forced laborer [woman] deported for labor in the Third Reich , issued 12.7.1944.

ARBEITSKARTE polnischer Arbeitskräfte / Work card of a Polish forced laborer [woman] deported to labor in the Third Reich , issued 12.7.1944, card with photo, f. 14 x 17.5cm

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ARBEITSKARTE polnischer Arbeitskräfte is the German term for "Labor Charter for Polish Workers. " It was a document that was used during World War II during the German occupation of Poland. The card was part of the system of forced labor that the Third Reich instituted against the Polish population. The type of Arbaitskarte offered here was for Poles sent deep into the Third Reich for forced labor in German factories and industrial plants.