Editing Warsaw Ghetto (section)

== Manufacture of German military supplies ==
[[File:Working Jews Warsaw Ghetto 02.jpg|thumb|left|Jews working in a ghetto factory]]
Not long after the ghetto was closed off from the outside world, a number of German [[War profiteering|war profiteers]] such as [[Többens and Schultz]] appeared in the capital.<ref name="Menszer"/> At first, they acted as middlemen between the high command and the Jewish-run workshops. By spring 1942, the ''Stickerei Abteilung'' Division with headquarters at Nowolipie 44 Street had already employed 3,000 workers making shoes, leather products, sweaters and socks for the Wehrmacht. Other divisions were making furs and wool sweaters also, guarded by the ''Werkschutz'' police.<ref name="CBnZŻ"/> Some 15,000 Jews were working in the ghetto for Walter C. Többens from Hamburg, a convicted war criminal,<ref name="Kurzman"/> including at his factories on Prosta and Leszno Streets among other locations. His Jewish labor exploitation was a source of envy for other ghetto inmates living in fear of deportations.<ref name="CBnZŻ"/> In early 1943 Többens gained for himself the appointment of a Jewish deportation commissar of Warsaw in order to keep his own workforce secure, and maximize profits.<ref name="Powell"/> In May 1943 Többens transferred his businesses, including 10,000 [[Forced labor under German rule during World War II|Jewish slave workers]] to the [[Poniatowa concentration camp]] barracks.<ref name="Nicosia"/> Fritz Schultz took his manufacture along with 6,000 Jews to the nearby [[Trawniki concentration camp]].<ref name="Menszer"/><ref name="Libionka"/>