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English: Lot-3645-10: WWII: German Activities. German women “Flakwaffenhelferinnen” of the anti-aircraft gun auxiliary. Headlights are furnished. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/04/21).


  • German World War II photo copied from the Flickr album LOC: 2017/04/21 by Photograph Curator: Images pertain to the German women's "Flakwaffenhelferinnin" during World War II;
  • Wehrmachthelferin ("Female Wehrmacht helper") was the name for girls and young women who served during the Second World War with the German Wehrmacht as auxiliaries. With many men going to the front, women were placed in auxiliary positions within the Wehrmacht, participating in tasks such as:
- telephone, telegraph and transmission operators,
- administrative clerks, typists and messengers,
- operators of listening equipment, in anti-aircraft defense, operating projectors for anti-aircraft defense, employees within meteorology services, and auxiliary civil defense personnel
- volunteer nurses in military health service (similar to the role of women working with the German Red Cross or other voluntary organizations).
By 1945, 500,000 women were serving as Wehrmachtshelferinnen, half of whom were volunteers, while the other half performed obligatory services connected to the war effort (Kriegshilfsdienst)
  • Flakwaffenhelferinnen were female anti-aircraft auxiliaries; Luftwaffenhelfer or Flakhelfer was any (male) member of the auxiliary staff of the German Luftwaffe during World War II. FLAK is an abreviation for German Fliegerabwehrkanone or Flugabwehrkanone, "aircraft defence cannon", i. e. anti-aircraft warfare
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