FASHION Topic: FASHION 2026
Textile production at Ravensbrück concentration camp began as early as 1939. With the establishment of Texled, an SS-owned company, and its relocation from Dachau to Ravensbrück in 1941, the textile workshops there became a leading centre for weaving, cutting, sewing and mending.
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Ausstellungsansicht „Maschinen dröhnen, Nadel schleppt den Faden, scharfes Messer glänzt, schneidet entzwei und sticht“, Dominique Hurth, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, 2025
The workshops produced prisoners’ clothing for all concentration camps, as well as uniforms for the SS and the Wehrmacht, and for the female guard corps at the concentration camp. Witness testimonies and company reports document the increasingly violent working conditions in the workshops. The talk will address the forced labour and the history of violence associated with uniform production, as well as the economic structures and their continuities right up to the present day.
- Speaker: Dominique Hurth, Berlin
Free of charge. No registration required.
IN GERMAN
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Dates
September 2026
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