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From Himmler's Angora: Rabbits Being Sheared by Technicians

In these photographs, female technicians shave the long fur from Angora rabbits. The fur was then used to line the jackets of Luftwaffe pilots, turned into socks for U-Boat crews, or fashioned into undergarments for German infantry fighting in cold weather.

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These images have been provided with permission by the Wisconsin Historical Society.