Text Shot: Female employees of the German munitions factory WASAG in their work clothes, 1916. The one on the right seems to have been “conscripted” (zwangsverpflichtet), though it is unclear on what basis. She was also apparently highly skilled insofar as she was a production manager of some kind.
Source: Haus der Geschichte Wittenberg, “Arbeiterinnen der WASAG Reinsdorf.”
Photograph of three women standing together in their factory work clothes
Repost for #WomensHistoryMonth: German Munitions Workers (1916), markstoneman.com/2019/02/07/munitions-wor... Image via: https://st.museum-digital.de/object/69193
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