The racist and discriminatory Allgemeine Bestimmungen über Anwerbung und Einsatz von Arbeitskräften aus dem Osten (“General provisions for recruiting and use of laborers from the East”) of February 20, 1942, also known as the Ostarbeiterlasse (Eastern decrees). They were drafted in line with the Polenerlasse (Polish decrees) of March 1940; however, they restricted the life and freedom of movement of Soviet civilian laborers far more severely. Accordingly, these laborers had to live in isolated, guarded camps that they could only leave to go to work.