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Ostindustrie controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1943

    Forced labor and confiscated enterprises

    Ostindustrie operated confiscated Jewish and Polish businesses and depended on the imprisonment and forced labor of Jewish and Polish workers in the SS camp system.

  2. 1943

    Aktion Erntefest and the destruction of the workforce

    The company's Jewish workforce was killed during Aktion Erntefest on 3 November 1943, when approximately 43,000 Jews in the Lublin District were murdered.