Berlin’s Rubble Women Did Much Of The Post-War Work

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At the end of WW2 much of Germany’s capital had been destroyed. A million Berliners were homeless. Women played a huge part in clearing the rubble to make the city habitable. Show more

In the aftermath of World War II, Berlin was in ruins. Its population had been reduced by half, and nearly two-thirds of the city’s 2.3 million citizens were women. Many of these German women —

Berlin mobilized 60,000 women to remove the rubble leftover from the war, yet this number was only five percent of the female population. In areas like Berlin’s British sector, Treber reports

Berlin mobilized about 60,000 women to clear the war ruins, but even that amounted to no more than 5 percent of the female population – it wasn’t a mass phenomenon.

Her key finding is that the main rubble removal and recycling was achieved by professional workers and big machines – just as it had been during the war when the Nazis preferred

It literally means “rubble woman,” and that’s exactly what they were, the women who hammered bricks, shifted the ruins off the streets, salvaged materials for reconstruction. In Berlin alone, about 60,000 women did this work

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