Eagle Factory

[Robin Lumsden]

Here's a girl in the Lodz Ghetto, working on hand embroidering Wehrmacht eagles...................

[besslein]

sad

[Johnny R]

What is the source of the photo?

[Richard P]

Very rare photo Robin, thanks for sharing.

[Schulterklappen]

Foto

Fascinating photo; thank you for posting this. It is always interesting to see how something is made, especially for people who have and interest in cloth items.

[Johnny R]

I wish more details were available ie. if they did this to supplement income or were forced too etc. I have a friend who has said his grandfather was a tailor in Poland and was forced to make uniform items during the War but he cannot explain much beyond that.

[corporalSteiner]

rare glimpse at the reality behind much of this stuff...child slave labor.

[Colorado]

We have family friends from Alsace (near Strassburg). When the Germans retreated in 1944, she and her mother were forced to wash the clothes for German Soldiers and received no compensation. She was ethnic French Alsatian.

Her future husband also a teenager in the same town, but ethnic German did not have such problems. So, would not expect this young girl from a Ghetto was receiving anything more than beets and bread as a ration.

[Military]

Robin, thanks for sharing this photo.

Ive never seen these, nor photos of other metal insignias being made at the factories. Does anyone have photos of the metalworking factories producing medals and insignias?

[Colorado]

Robin - Does she look tethered? I see a band around her left arm and what looks like a tether.

[Johnny R]

I am sure there is a SS guy with jagged yellow teeth standing just out of the picture pointing a MP-40 at her head. This is why I asked for the source and more info. Inferences based on the image alone are unfounded. I would be very interested in knowing more but Robin seems to have planted a seed and left?

[Robin Lumsden]

I am sure there is a SS guy with jagged yellow teeth standing just out of the picture pointing a MP-40 at her head. This is why I asked for the source and more info. Inferences based on the image alone are unfounded. I would be very interested in knowing more but Robin seems to have planted a seed and left?

Pardon me for breathing!

Contrary to popular belief, I am not a performing monkey!

[Johnny R]

Pardon me for breathing!

You are forgiven Chief Inspector, where did you pull this from? Before we drum up another War crimes trial based on conjecture was there a caption etc. ? This really not the industrial level or technology I would envision being a plot of labor exploition three eagles at a time. These were not issue items etc.

[Robin Lumsden]

Robin - Does she look tethered? I see a band around her left arm and what looks like a tether.

I see a bracelet and a seam on her skirt!

[Robin Lumsden]

You are forgiven......

I didn't ask for forgiveness!