The Ostarbeiter decrees fix the status of Soviet workers
The decrees of 20 February 1942 governed the use of workers from the Soviet Union in Germany. They wore a badge reading OST, lived in special camps fenced with barbed wire and kept under guard, and received worse food rations than the other groups of foreign workers. More than half of the Soviet workers were women. The decrees were issued a month before Sauckel's appointment and prepared the large deportations of that year.
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