How many months away from collapse was the Third Reich when they started putting women on the front lines?
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
121 points (98.4% liked)
News
23387 readers
3437 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I don't think that the Reich ever did. I'm not sure that anyone other than the Soviet Union used women in a front-line combat role in WW2.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_World_War_II
Apparently Germany did have women's auxiliaries, and some of those operated flak weapons against bombing raids, and there were some nurses near the front lines, albeit not in a combat role directly.
From a quick skim of that article, it sounds like the only time that women in states other than the Soviet Union were in combat is if they were serving in some sort of auxiliary unit (e.g. nurses) that were near the front lines, serving in an anti-aircraft role, as kind of a last-ditch move when a country was being overrun (e.g. Poland) and women's auxiliaries assigned to secondary defenses wound up in combat. I remember that we (the US) had female pilots, but those were doing cargo runs rather than using weapons.
This is yet another sign of the Russian economy booming!
Since everything is going so well, Putin continues his glorious fight for equality! Now women will have the same rights as men to serve in the meat grinder.
There's absolutely no desperation here... Nothing to see... Move along.
I wonder if it will reach a certain point that the Russian people tire of being used as fodder for Putin's meat grinder.
That will happen when he starts targetting middle class families, and not before.
I mean, by that point, the entire lower class is gone. Which makes middle class the new lower class. Things won't change until he starts targeting oligarchs or their families.
“Released”
Riiiiight. Totally of their own volition and with full knowledge of the shit they were about to be thrown into, right….?
full knowledge of the shit they were about to be thrown into
I mostly agree with you, but is there a single military in history that didn't mostly rely on naive kids with zero knowledge of what they were getting themselves into?
Israel’s IDF relies on mandatory service. Turkish military, too. Russia.
Getting desperate clearly.
I’m sure this will end well.
Wasn’t I just reading some article about a male Russian prisoner forced into clear who shot an officer before deserting? Keep an eye on these ladies.