Trümmerfrau

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Rubble women w Berlinie

Trümmerfrau (Frau = "woman") - these were women who, after the Second World War, were razing German cities destroyed during the war.

Statistically, it was a woman aged 15-50, a widow with one or two children (in the post-war Germany there were seven million more women than men), often starved and working on foot due to the destroyed infrastructure. In addition, she was looking for fuel, dressed in broken clothing, and on her head was a scarf or a tassle tied up with a knot. They often stocked up on the black market, exchanging watches, books, jewelry for groceries. Job description

The work was most often planned by men, who also answered the technical side of the work (wall demolition, heavy equipment maintenance). Upon demolition of the wall or part of the building, women who crushed the walls were crushed, and the bricks thus obtained were still cleaned from mortar with the help of brick masonry and stored in 12 layers of 16 pieces. The thirteenth layer had 8 pieces of bricks. In this way, there were always 200 pieces of cleaned ready to use bricks.

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