‘Those damn Germans didn’t care where they came from originally. They didn’t think of them as individuals with a past, a culture and a heritage, they were just OST – a person from the east. Their original province, their town, their village, none of that mattered to the master race. They just printed OST in thick black letters beneath their photograph. The only ones who didn’t get given OST cards are those from the concentration camps and their ID is tattooed or branded on the inside of their right arm.’
