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Life In Russia Under German Occupation: WW2

A local interpreter spells out the new rules laid down by the Germans

A burly German checks documents of Russian women

Russian people sent to Germany to work as slave labor. Near Stalingrad.

Russian people bundled into trains to be sent to Germany

German soldiers seizing food grain from a Russian village to be sent to Germany

A Russian Jewish family being sent to the ghetto. Byelorussia. 1941.

A Jewish ghetto in Russia. 1941

Russian Jews forced to clean streets. 1941.

Note the stars that the Jews were forced to wear

Germans arresting some locals 

German soldiers smile and smirk as they pass some Russian women working on the roadside. 1941. Is it because the men were pining for female company? Or is it because of a sense of racial superiority?

A German officer addresses the people of an occupied Russian town

Folks of a village sent for forced labor

A German officer questions residents of a town

Russians register themselves a t a labor exchange manned by Germans

Russian children gives German soldier s shoe-shine. November 1942

German soldiers check traffic documents in Lithuania. 1942

Russians forced to make a log bridge.

Russian peasants read a new German order. 1942

A Russian boy carries a wheel-barrow containing the luggage of German soldiers at a Russian rail station. May 1943

SS men herd Russian folks on trucks to be sent to Germany as slave labor. June 1943