A pair of very heavily worn and tattered shoes once worn by a concentration camp inmate or P.O.W. of the Germans during World War II. These shoes are in poor condition, as one would expect. Each was originally secured with two leather straps, one shoe now lacking both. The wood soles are fixed to the torn leather uppers with wire, and these soles have been reinforced on the bottom with a hodge-podge of metal heel and sole 'taps' scavenged from other shoes and applied to this pair in order to extend the life of the soles. Recovered by a picker near Hamburg.