Abstract
This chapter discusses the words of Marie Elisabeth Luders, a former leader of the Federation of German Women’s Associations. Luders proposed the introduction of a “compulsory service year for women” parallel to “men’s compulsory military service,” which the Nazi state had reintroduced in 1935. According to the image propagated during the First and Second World Wars and National Socialism, men go to war as “defenders of the fatherland,” reserving and protecting the “homeland” embodied by women. In First and Second World War Germany, this model of a wartime gender order appears to have functioned above all to mobilize men for war. After the Second World War, the lasting suppression and concealment of women’s mass military deployment was a central component of the restoration of the gender order. Keywords:German women; Marie Elisabeth Luders; military service; world wars
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