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u/coinsinmyrocket · 10 pointsr/AskHistorians

Speaking on Germany, Hitler and other leading Nazis made a big point of not having women work outside the home to assist in the war effort as well as maintaining the idea that life would "continue as normal" even when it was apparent that life was anything but during the early stages of the war.

This meant mainly that German industry was not completely focused on assisting the German war effort, and the parts that were focused on war production drew heavily upon foreign and slave labor pools in order to free up German men for military service. Even then, Germany didn't officially enter a state of Total War until early 1943, and measures were still taken to ensure German women weren't prioritized to assist in the war industry when their assistance could have been useful. Slave and foreign labor were seen as the chief sources of labor to be capitalized before women were even considered a potential source of labor. This obviously began to change as the war closed in on Germany's borders.

Whereas in WWI, the German government did not have nearly as many reservations about employing German women in the war effort. I cannot speak as specifically about German industry and output during WWI (I'm not as well read there), but I do know that women were called upon to work in the industry without nearly as many reservations than the Nazi government had during WWII.

Further reading:

Germany At War by Richard Evans

Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze

The End by Ian Kershaw

u/MadPat · 4 pointsr/badhistory

Agreed. I have also read Kershaw's The End and Fateful Choices and Ol' Adolf's single-mindedness comes through in them.

u/Spitfire_Harold · 1 pointr/HistoryPorn

??? The prison guards at many of the extermination camps were SS, and the SS were heavily involved in carrying out many parts of the holocaust. That is elementary knowledge. As for the Wehrmacht involvement, that is now a fact that is explored in depth in many recent publications.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/rape-murder-and-genocide-nazi-war-crimes-as-described-by-german-soldiers-a-755385-5.html
http://www.amazon.com/Marching-into-Darkness-Wehrmacht-Holocaust/dp/0674725506

http://www.amazon.com/End-Defiance-Destruction-Hitlers-1944-1945/dp/0143122134/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413904638&sr=1-3&keywords=the+end+nazi+germany

u/KILL_WITH_KINDNESS · 1 pointr/HistoryPorn

Oh whoops I actually meant to reply to the comment above ya. That movie barely touches on public perceptions anyway so it wouldn't be useful. But since I'm here, I looked into it, and a book like this might be helpful.