The outcome was that more and more Ravensbrück women, along with prisoners in all concentration camps, were to be deployed as slave labourers making military equipment, clothes and arms. With this new priority in mind, Himmler had toured the workshops in March and flown into a fury on discovering that the women harnessed to the weaving treadmill were still only working an eight-hour shift. Eleven-hour shifts were introduced, as well as night shifts in the sewing workshops and stringent production quotas.
