Within the framework of the payments process, applicants presented various forms of documentation as evidence of their fate as forced labourers. The documents supplied by former forced labourers in various countries range from imprisonment release certificates, workbooks, repatriation certificates and filtration files through to archive materials and eyewitness reports. In addition, photographs, postcards and personal descriptions, some of which contain impressive sketches of various locations, have been supplied to give credence to their accounts.
The Federal Foundation plans several publications based on these materials.

The final report of the Foundation on the activities of the payments programmes has already been published. This appeared under the title Gemeinsame Verantwortung und moralische Pflicht (joint responsibility and a moral duty) in June 2007 and is now on sale in bookshops.

Together with the Bundesarchiv (German federal archives), the Foundation intends to launch a website on the theme of forced labour during the National Socialist era. And based on a selection of around 60 historical documents, a schools brochure is also planned that will provide an introduction to the theme of forced labour under National Socialism.