[The Chancellor] had already shown interest in the battlefield performance of Polish women fighting in the Warsaw Revolt — he personally questioned the SS counter‐insurgency chief, Erich von dem Bach‐Zelewski, on this matter — and in February 1945, prodded by Bormann, he conceded that all available human resources now had to be mobilized, ‘even women’. ‘That’s all the same to me’, he shrugged. ‘So many women who want to shoot are volunteering now, that I am of the opinion that we ought to take them immediately. They are braver anyway’.⁴⁶ Several days later, the Führer observed that ‘innumerable women are volunteering for the front’, and he suggested that such recruits would ‘undoubtedly fight fanatically’.⁴⁷

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