Nazis: The Most Interesting Stories by Toma Lucille

Author:Toma Lucille [Lucille, Toma]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

In 1932, 20 people (including five cottage workers) worked for the Boss, 99 in 1937 and 320 in 1944, mostly forced laborers from occupied countries.

The first Poles came to Hugo Boss' house in the spring of 1940. In the following months, the next ones. A total of 140 people from Poland worked at the German uniform making factory, 75 percent of whom were women. Apart from Poles, 40 French prisoners of war were brought to the factory. The average age of the forced laborers was low, ranging from 20 to 25 years. The workers worked 12 hours a day, from 6 to 18 (although there were also 18-hour shifts). The women were initially housed with local families, but when a special camp for workers from Eastern Europe was built at the beginning of 1943, the workers were moved to the factory premises. Until 1943, the men occupied the sheds erected by the company.

Anna Wocka, born in Oświęcim, nee Giesterek, came to the Boss factory in the first transport (the workers' accounts were collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation and the towns where they worked). "In the spring of 1940, employee Martin Eberhardt came to Poland to personally gather twenty people to work at the factory. He found sixteen women and four men. With the help of the Gestapo, he took this group in a special carriage to Bielsko-Biała, from there to Metzingen. - told in 2001 a 77-year-old former Polish worker. Anna was accommodated together with other women on a private farm at Maria Speidel's, where she was poorly fed, but the hygienic conditions were good. For sewing buttons to German uniforms, Anna received 70 marks a week. With this money, she had to pay rent and food. After the fees, she only had to pay for extra bread in her pocket.

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