58 UNSEEN HISTORICAL PHOTOS YOU DEFINITELY MUST SEE OF WAR GERMANY ARMY DURING WW2 | PART 11 |

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During the war, more than 500,000 women were volunteer uniformed auxiliaries in the German armed forces (Wehrmacht). About the same number served in civil aerial defense, 400,000 volunteered as nurses, and many more replaced drafted men in the wartime economy.

The mobilization of women in the Wehrmacht occurred in four different phases. Beginning in 1939 and 1940, the female Wehrmacht auxiliaries were deployed outside of Germany to occupied countries. In this first wave of female auxiliaries, these women were employed in such areas as the telephone and telegraph offices, the air-raid warning service, and the air reporting service. In order to serve in the military, women had to be at least twenty-one years old. Only women who volunteered were accepted, which led to a publicity campaign during the second phase of the deployment of women auxiliaries in 1941. As the war progressed, the Nazi Party promoted voluntary female military service to replace men from communications and clerical areas so they could be deployed to the front lines. The next two phases of the deployment of women saw the female auxiliaries occupying positions with more responsibility and closer to the frontlines.

This video is the eleventh part of my remarkable Germany At War videos. It consists of rare authentic photos and portraits of soldiers during the war that I have put together from the period of 1933-1946.
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The never seen before thumbnail photo is number 58 in the video. Members of the Totenkopf-SS and Wehrmacht teaching women how to operate a Walther P38.
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Background

SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; literally "Death's Head Units") was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. While the Totenkopf (skull) was the universal cap badge of the SS, the SS-TV also wore the Death's Head insignia on the right collar tab to distinguish itself from other Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) formations.

The SS-TV originally created in 1933 was an independent unit within the SS, with its own ranks and command structure. It ran the camps throughout Germany and later in occupied Europe. Camps in Germany included Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Buchenwald; camps elsewhere in Europe included Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland and Mauthausen in Austria among the numerous other concentration camps, and death camps handled with the utmost of secrecy.

The extermination camps' function was genocide; they included Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibór built specifically for Aktion Reinhard, as well as the original Chełmno extermination camp, and Majdanek which was fitted with mass killing facilities, along with Auschwitz. They were responsible for facilitating what the Nazis called the Final Solution, known since the war as the Holocaust;[4] perpetrated by the SS within the command structure of the Reich Main Security Office, subordinate to Heinrich Himmler, and the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office or WVHA.

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