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thumb|ID card of a Zivilarbeiter from Nazi-occupied Soviet Union right|thumb|200px|Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer (Workbook for Foreigner) identity document issued to a Polish Zivilarbeiter in 1942 together with a letter "P" patch Poles were required to wear attached to their clothing. Zivilarbeiter () refers primarily to ethnic Polish residents from the General Government (Nazi-occupied central Poland), used during World War II as forced laborers in the Third Reich.

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thumb|ID card of a Zivilarbeiter from Nazi-occupied Soviet Union right|thumb|200px|Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer (Workbook for Foreigner) identity document issued to a Polish Zivilarbeiter in 1942 together with a letter "P" patch Poles were required to wear attached to their clothing. Zivilarbeiter () refers primarily to ethnic Polish residents from the General Government (Nazi-occupied central Poland), used during World War II as forced laborers in the Third Reich.

==Polish Zivilarbeiters== The residents of occupied Poland were conscripted on the basis of the so-called Polish decrees (Polenerlasse), and were subject to discriminatory regulation.

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