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Until December 1941, recruitment was by volunteer enlistment, but by that date unmarried women in the age group 18–40 years could be drafted into auxiliary service. [1] All female auxiliary services were uniformed and under military discipline, with free rations, quarters and clothing.
In the beginning, women in Nazi Germany were not involved in the Wehrmacht, as Adolf Hitler ideologically opposed conscription for women, [3] stating that Germany would "not form any section of women grenade throwers or any corps of women elite snipers." [4] However, with many men going to the front, women were placed in auxiliary positions within the Wehrmacht, called Wehrmachtshelferinnen ...
1 Germany. 2 Italian ... 4 Notes. 5 References. Toggle the table of contents. Military ranks of women's services in WWII. Add languages. ... Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Re-educating German Women: the Work of the Women's Affairs Section of the British Military Government, 1946–1951 (P. Lang, 2003). Williamson, Gordon. World War II German Women's Auxiliary Services (Osprey, 2012).
In 2006, 84-year-old San Francisco resident Elfriede Rinkel was deported by the US Justice Department to Germany; Rinkel had worked at Ravensbrück from June 1944 to April 1945, and had used an SS-trained dog in the camp. She had hidden her secret for more than 60 years from her family, friends and Jewish-German husband Fred.
Ranks and insignia of the German Women's Auxiliary Services This page was last edited on 17 March 2021, at 20:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
One in five women aged 65 or over is at risk of poverty in Germany, compared with 17.5% of the men, according to statistics office data. But still, Hart said increasing her working hours is not an ...
Gewalt im Dienstalltag: Die SS-Aufseherinnen des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Mayjdanek, 1942-1944 [Violence in Everyday Service: The Women SS Guards of the Mayjdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp, 1942-1944] (in German). Hamburg, Germany: Hamburger Edition. ISBN 978-3-868-54212-7. OCLC 449491527.