Foreign female Auxiliaries

[balaton]

hi,

I recall that there is one or two pictures of Belgian nurses in the book, "for Rex, and Belgium", ISBN: 1874622329.

-B

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

are the girls below flak auxiliaries from Estonia? Both pictures are from http://www.hot.ee/vaikal/saksamaal.htm and I don't understand a word of what the site is saying.

Best regards
Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

Hello all,

here comes another one. Dutch nurses serving in the German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, DRK)
Source: http://www.waffen-ss.nl/nedambu.php
(Interesting site by the way saying that more than a thousand dutch girls served in the German Red Cross.)

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Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

This is something you don't see often too. Female russian Hiwis being sworn in. Picture from Sept.21st, 1943.
Also from http://www.ullsteinbild.de


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Torsten

[Semenov]

Hi, Heimatschuss!
They are estonian.

[Heimatschuss]

Hello Semenov,

thanks for confirmation. Tapani K. even kindly translated the whole article that accompanied the pictures in the translations section. Here is a copy of it:

EESTI TÜTARLAPSED ÕHUKAITSES.

Estonian girls in air-defence

In the autumn of 1944 Estonian girls were not recruited for the Luftwaffe auxiliary service, although it was intended to do so initially. Apparently the rapidly changing situation in the Estonian eastern border caused the change. The recruitment campaign began in Gotenhafen after the German forces had left Estonia. All in all there were nearly one thousand Estonian girls recruited for the Auxiliary service. Some of them were sent for farm labour. Most of the girls were born in 1927, although there were some older girls, too. Many had lost contact with family and relatives in the chaos of the evacuation. Older girls expressed their wish to go study for medical nurses, but most of them were sent as “Luftwaffenhelferinnen” to Püttritz training camp for training.

After the Püttritz training camp 325 girls were sent to Stettin, where they we placed to work with fog-makers. Some of the girls were sent near Breslau for so called “paigutusteenistus” (no idea, what this means, perhaps some sort of help for evacuees?). In Stettin they were instructed by Air Force personnel. Their battery commander was a German oberleutnant and also lower commanders were German at first. Lower command posts were later given to Aino Sõmer, Mai Raud and Maaja Kuus, who wore silver stripes on their sleeves. The girls’ uniforms were blue German Air Force tunics. While in the city the girls wore skirts, but while in service, always trousers. The headgear was a ski cap with the badge of Eesti noored (Estonian Youth) in the front. The girls were also given helmets and gas-masks.

There was military industry in Stettin defended by air defence units outside the city. In the units Estonian girls lived with Germans. They were formed into platoons with 22 girls per platoon. They had to go to field and guard duty, but without arms. During air raids their job was to create artificial fog to prevent the attack-ers to see their targets. These so called “uduheitjad” (Nebelwerfer?) were very dangerous contraptions and many girls were wounded with the chemicals spilling from them.

In March 1945 the Western allies destroyed with heavy air attacks German military industries around Stet-tin protected by the Estonian girls’ Company. During tha air attacks one girl was killed. Some of the hgirls were now sent to the island of Rügen while others went to the North Sea island of Norderney to dig trenches. At the end of the war all of the girls were sent by foot towards Rostock, where they stayed in the Saasnitz camp. About 3000 helferinnen of different nationalities were placed there. When the Red Army approached Saasnitz, the girls were sent by foot westwards. Some of the Estonian girls remained in Rostock and were probably captured by the Russians.

The are no record on the majority of the Estonian girls and their further fate is unknown. Officially the Esto-nian girls volunteered for the Auxiliary service, but in reality they went necessitated by the circumstances, since this was the only way get ration cards for food; other than going to building work wit POWs. After the war most of the girls remained in the west. So far only some of them have been located.

Best regards
Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

Another photo of Dutch nurses had already been presented here http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... ck&start=0

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Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

today it's a young lady from Norway. We had this picture somewhere on the forum earlier, but I didn't find it anymore.
Source http://militariacollec.free.fr/ident/vi ... hp?p=20585

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Torsten

[stril]

Hello
In Norway many enlisted in the red cross was convicted after the war for support to the enemy.
Today its said to be wrong, but who knows.
The norwegian woman in the picture belong to the red cross. For me she is a woman in a german uniform, supporting the germans.
I cant really blame those judging them back in 1945.
regards
stril

[herr]

here a Flemish nurse with Flemish EK1 winner Julius Geurts on a SS propaganda postcard.

Herr

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

a bit new stuff.
Upper picture
http://ukr-ww2.onestop.net/bottom.php?s ... youth.html
The site gives Stefa Martynenko's location as 'Schleiffe' but I could not find any place with that name in Central Europe.
Probably it's Schleife (Sorbian: Slepo) near Weißwasser in westernmost Silesia (today Saxony). There was a Luftwaffe Munitionsanstalt (ammunition factory and dump) so it would still have merited some flak protection in November 1944.
Does anyone know it they trained Ukrainian flak auxiliaries there too?

Lower picture
http://www.ebay.de Auction 250038172689
Russian Hiwi girls working in a dressing station of 212th Infantry Division that operated in the vicinity of Leningrad in winter 1941/42.

Best regards
Torsten

[Askold]

One more Ukrainian girl:

[Vikki]

Askold,

Can you give us a source for the picture? And any information that goes along with it would be interesting too.

~Vikki

[soniadsmith]

There were Dutch women who worked as Aufseherinnen at concentration camps - the archives at Majdanek have some correspndence relating to them. There were 4 Dutch women who were going to be transferred from Plaszow to Majdanek, but the transfer was cancelled in the end - the WVHA wrote to the Kommandant of Majdanek on 20/3/44:

‘Diese Aufseherinnen koennen jedoch noch nicht in einem Judenlager zurechtfinden, da es sich um Hollaenderinnen handelt. Sie werden sonst seht [sic – probably meant to be sehr] gut beurteilt.’

That is to say, that they weren't to be sent to Majdanek because it was a 'Jewish camp'.

It was suggested that they be transferred to Ravensbrück instead.

Sonia

[Heimatschuss]

Hi,

Several danish women served as nurses too. Cant find the darn book with the ref, but will dig deeper if needed

This thread refers to the Danish nurses serving in the German Red Cross: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=83155

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Torsten