Here's another Pag-trekker (Chevrolet, I presume), used by German soldiers during one of their feared razzia's in Holland, late 1944. As you can see the soldiers dismount their vehicle to block off a street. They would go from door to door to pick up any man aged 17 to 50 for the
Arbeitseinsatz (forced labour for the Germans).
Reportedly, my late grandfather avoided being picked up in razzia by hiding under the floor, with one of his boys put in a baby cot on top of the trap door. The boy would be crying as he was really too big to be put in a baby cot. When a German soldier asked why he was crying, my grandmother answered he was afraid of all those soldiers with their rifles. Or so the story goes...
Picture from
Nederland 1940-1945. De gekleurde waarheid, featuring wartime photos (many in colour, sadly not this one) from the collection of Alphons Hustinx.
