[Above: Eastern workers enjoying traditional dancing, February 1943. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: Eastern workers enjoying an orderly dinner, February 1943. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: Eastern workers enjoying an orderly dinner, February 1943. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: A hidden fact is that Auschwitz had many factories where both inmates and volunteers worked. This picture shows Ostarbeiters at an I.G. Farben factory.]

[Above: This shows a Siemens factory in Berlin, August 1943.]

[Above: Some girls employed at a Siemens factory in Berlin enjoying some leisure time, January 1943. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: Another photo of girls employed at a Siemens factory in Berlin enjoying some leisure time, January 1943. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

[Above: Two communist soldiers pose for a propaganda photo with a captured Ostarbeiter. One can only imagine the horrors that went on after this photo was taken.]

[Above: An eastern worker in a German factory.]

[Above: An eastern worker in a German factory.]

[Above: Recruiting poster showing a Russian volunteer. If they were forced to work, why did they need detailed color posters trying to convince them to work? Because criminals and POWs were forced to work, not normal civilians.]