GERMAN MILITIA ENLISTS WOMEN RECRUITS
Berlin, Germany • February 12, 1945 On this date in 1945 German women were called up for service in the Volkssturm (Home Guard, or national militia). Adolf Hitler was playing his final card in World War II by mobilizing practically every German civilian for an apocalyptic defense of the Third Reich, a 20th‑century Wagnerian Goetterdaemmerung. Nazi…