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English: Items from WW2 showing Nazi Germany's use of forced slave labour when constructing the Polar Eisenbahn (Polarkreiseisenbahn) and Ost Bahn for the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Soviet POW prisoners in quilted clothing (telogreika uniform, fufaika winter jacket and trousers) and striped prisoner's uniform, with Red Army Budenovka cap. Also yellow Deutsche Reichsbahn Kraftwagengüterstelle sign, barbed wire, foot chains, railroad ties, shovels, camp gate with Ukrainisch Lager ("Ukranian Camp") and Halt' ("Stop") signs, German military guard with Mauser rifle, etc.

Photo taken on May 8th, 2019 at Lofoten War Memorial Museum ("Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum") in Svolvær, Norway. The museum exhibits uniforms, smaller items, etc. from World War II and the German occupation of Norway 1940–1945.
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