Wehrmachthelferin

thumb|Wehrmachthelferinnen in occupied Paris in World War II|Paris, 1940 '''''' ('female Armed Forces helper', plural -innen) was the name for girls and young women who served during the Second World War with the German Wehrmacht as auxiliaries.

== History == In the beginning, women in Nazi Germany were not involved in the Wehrmacht, as Adolf Hitler ideologically opposed conscription for women, stating that Germany would "not form any section of women grenade throwers or any corps of women elite snipers." However, with many men going to the front, women were placed in auxiliary positions within the Wehrmacht, called Wehrmachtshelferinnen (), 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).