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Poster for a benefit event for invalids, 1915

A nurse caring for a wounded soldier.

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Heeresgeschichtliches Museum
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    ‘Inflicting Wounds, Healing Wounds: the Solution for our Time’

    The notion of war as a specifically male activity was long ago dispelled by women’s and gender history. During the First World War, women were not only active in the war effort at home; they also served on the front as female auxiliaries and Rot-Kreuz-Schwestern [Red Cross nurses].