Young women helping on a farm, 1937
Young women in work coats with swastika badges pick fruit and flowers with a farm woman, carry them to the farmhouse and milk a goat.
A fair-haired young woman in a light work coat, a round swastika badge on her sleeve, picks fruit into a crate beside an older farm woman in a striped dress and smiles as she pulls down a fruit. With two companions she gathers armfuls of flowers between rows of young trees, walks back under an apple tree to a farmhouse porch where the blooms are sorted, and helps to milk a white goat at the stable door.
The regime sent girls from the towns to the farms, through the women's Labour Service, the League of German Girls' land service and, from 1938, Hermann Göring's Duty Year, which obliged young unmarried women to spend a year on the land or in a household. The countryside was short of hands, as farm labourers left for the new factories.
