Photos of work situations from the SS propaganda album as opposed to drawings by the prisoners themselves.

Around 1940, the SS had a considerable number of photos taken of the conditions in the camp and had them compiled in an album. These were, understandably, embellished pictures, including those showing women prisoners cutting and sewing uniforms, weaving straw ropes, making reed mats, at the loom, but also doing earthwork and construction work, and so on. The women give a quiet impression in the photos, they sit - similar to usual factory pictures - in long double rows behind the sewing machines in a large, clean and well-lit hall. They can be seen weaving in what seems to be a comfortable circle, and in the photos of work on building roads and houses, their correct uniforms with striped dresses, headscarves and black aprons are striking. If female guards are to be seen in the photos, they stand disciplined apart, and nothing indicates their otherwise rude behavior toward the women prisoners. The reality, however, was different.
(Translated by P.B. from: Sigrid Jacobeit, Zur Arbeit weblicher Häftlinge im Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück. In: Hermann Kaienburg (Hrsg.), Konzentrationslager und deutsche Wirtschaft 1939–1945, S. 203)