Trümmerfrau
Sign in to savethumb|upright 0.85|Trümmerfrauen at work in Berlin, July 1946
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- Degree of damage
- Removal of ruins
- Pay
- Later works and recognition
- Across Germany
- Aachen
- Berlin
- Bremen
- Chemnitz
- Fashion
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- Legend
- See also
- References
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thumb|upright 0.85|Trümmerfrauen at work in Berlin, July 1946
Trümmerfrauen ( rubble women, singular Trümmerfrau ) were women who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria. Hundreds of cities had suffered significant bomb and firestorm damage from aerial attacks and ground war, and with many men dead or prisoners of war, this monumental task fell to a large degree on women.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trümmerfrau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.