In occupied Poland Jews were immediately forbidden to own furs and ordered to hand them in: this yielded 16,654 fur coats and fur-lined coats, 18,000 fur jackets, 8,300 muffs and 74,446 fur collars in Warsaw alone. The Polish underground resistance took heart from this first sign of vulnerability, putting up posters depicting a German soldier huddled in a woman’s fox-fur collar while he warmed his hands in her muff.
