Hello guys
here are a pair of trousers I have from 90s.
They seem to be a M43 but don't have all their characteristics and are made in Italian cloth.
In the rear side they have a maker paper label “ Walther C. Többens Warschaw “.
In a web research I found that Walther C. Többens appeared in Warsaw in the summer of 1941, not long after the Ghetto was closed off with walls topped with barbed wire. The unemployment, hunger and malnutrition there were rampant. At first, he acted as middlemen between the German high command and the Jewish-run workshops, and placed production orders with them. Within weeks he opened his own factory in the Ghetto using slave labour on a record scale.
In 1942 some 15,000 Jews were working for Többens in the Warsaw Ghetto, at the Prosta Street and at the Leszno Street factories among other places. Staying with any of them was a source of envy for other Jews living in fear of deportations. In early 1943 Többens gained for himself the appointment of a Jewish deportation commissar of Warsaw in order to keep his own workforce secure and maximize profits. Resulting from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the destruction of an entire city district by the SS, in May 1943 Többens had transferred his businesses, including 10,000 Jewish slave workers with families spared from Treblinka, to the Poniatowa concentration camp facility set up near Lublin.
Többens was captured in Austria by the Americans in 1946. He escaped from a train on the way to a trial in Poland and settled under an assumed name in Bayern, where he founded a new business from his wartime profits. He revealed his identity in 1952, and died in a car accident two years later.
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here are a pair of trousers I have from 90s.
They seem to be a M43 but don't have all their characteristics and are made in Italian cloth.
In the rear side they have a maker paper label “ Walther C. Többens Warschaw “.
In a web research I found that Walther C. Többens appeared in Warsaw in the summer of 1941, not long after the Ghetto was closed off with walls topped with barbed wire. The unemployment, hunger and malnutrition there were rampant. At first, he acted as middlemen between the German high command and the Jewish-run workshops, and placed production orders with them. Within weeks he opened his own factory in the Ghetto using slave labour on a record scale.
In 1942 some 15,000 Jews were working for Többens in the Warsaw Ghetto, at the Prosta Street and at the Leszno Street factories among other places. Staying with any of them was a source of envy for other Jews living in fear of deportations. In early 1943 Többens gained for himself the appointment of a Jewish deportation commissar of Warsaw in order to keep his own workforce secure and maximize profits. Resulting from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the destruction of an entire city district by the SS, in May 1943 Többens had transferred his businesses, including 10,000 Jewish slave workers with families spared from Treblinka, to the Poniatowa concentration camp facility set up near Lublin.
Többens was captured in Austria by the Americans in 1946. He escaped from a train on the way to a trial in Poland and settled under an assumed name in Bayern, where he founded a new business from his wartime profits. He revealed his identity in 1952, and died in a car accident two years later.
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