Girls Armed With Pitchforks - The Women’s Land Army - WW2 - On the Homefront 002

[@WorldWarTwo]

This is the second instalment of our monthly 'On the Homefront' series and it's about the Women's Land Army. Now, with these series we're planning to cover the events and cultural and social changes that occurred during World War Two, as well as the organisations and individuals that lived through them. As with the other specials, we want to cover all the homefronts, from all nations all across the world. If you have any good ideas for future episodes, please let us know in the comments! Cheers and stay safe! Joram *RULES OF CONDUCT* STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

I hope she says #MentionLuxembourg

[@farhanrahman7119]

Great video Anna!

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@farhanrahman7119 Agreed

[@farhanrahman7119]

@@luxembourgishempire2826 wow so Luxembourg has got its own empire aye?

[@Austin_Niepołomice]

There are a couple sports events I’m interested to see if she brings them up. Can’t wait for more episodes as things that happen around the actual war interest me greatly.

[@jwilson1812]

3% recruitable population factor

[@sylvananas7923]

-5% stability Get the event "Armed with pitchforks"

[@jockeywolf]

"Women's Armed Service Integration Act"

[@rtpl100]

My mother volunteered for the Land Army. She had quite a few stories. She met my Dad there, he was assigned to enexploded ordnance disposal with the US 8th Air Corp. I still have a few of the letters he wrote home to his parents about his observations in London during the Blitz.

[@WorldWarTwo]

@rtpl100 That's great you still have your father's first-hand observations. Did your mother enjoy her time in the Land Army? My grandmother was in the WAAF and never talked about the work she did, only the fun and cameraderie she found there

[@prouddegenerates9056]

Indy's absolutely enchanting, fantastic new look.

[@BoostedPastime]

It is 2020 after all, good to see he finally came out for who she is.

[@ronneff5568]

My Mother was a Rosie during WW2. She worked at Glen l. Martin bomber plant in baltimore. She passed away last Aug at 96.

[@WorldWarTwo]

May the rest in peace, we have much to thank her and her generation for.

[@empowl1607]

Balitmore is a great city, very safe and vibrant today. You mother fought the good fight Sir, the world thanks you.

[@gianniverschueren870]

Does the headband count as a tie? 3/5

[@DotepenecPL]

All what was left after Indy went through the stuff.

[@gcircle]

It's interesting how, at the time, such ideas of "women can't do male work!" start to vanish real quick in times of crisis. Almost as if they were absurd too begin with.

[@prouddegenerates9056]

Because woman are biologically far more valuable then men in reproduction, so losing a woman has a much harder impact on the groups survival.

[@TheStephaneAdam]

@@prouddegenerates9056 Nah, like many "traditional" things, This kind of division of labor was a fairly recent thing. It came with industrialization and the Victorian era where urban populations grew and men spent all their time in factories. You think the women didn't work the fields when society wasn't more agrarian and every pair of hands counted? You think World War II was the first time in history women were keeping the farm alive when husbands went to war?

[@prouddegenerates9056]

@@TheStephaneAdam Certainly not, but the prevalent idea im presenting is that if at all possible men choose to take the most risk. Woman have always worked, provide or die when necessary, but birth itself had a fairly high casualty rate and formula/baby food are recent innovations. Woman are less tied to child raising now, so having them work or be at risk isn't nearly as detrimental as it once was. Let's say a womans output is better then a man's even, she can easily fill said role instead of him then, but a man simply biologically can't fulfill a womans role in reproduction regardless of skill, intelligence, or dedication.

[@brotlowskyrgseg1018]

@@prouddegenerates9056 That would only be true about jobs where dying is an expected outcome of your work. That whole "group survival" aspect also only really applies to small groups of prehistoric humans figuring out how to get that saber-tooth tiger out of their cave, not a modern society engaged in warfare. As a species we've come a long way since then.

[@prouddegenerates9056]

@@brotlowskyrgseg1018 This is primarily focused on a time of war as well, so this logic hold more importance then then now, but it still affects decision making.

[@Zebred2001]

My mother who passed away at the end of 2018 worked in agriculture during the war at an estate at Crediton, Devon. She came from Enfield Middlesex. She never lost her love for farming.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks for sharing - respect to your mother and may she rest in peace.

[@shirleylake7738]

My father was as an American soldier in the South Pacific .He spoke of women pilots who flew the supply planes over the enemy to deliver supplies.

[@BerserkAlfa]

I love the new hairstyle, Indy.

[@alx1138]

Και εμένα μου άρεσε

[@cromania100]

@@alx1138 grci i srbi braća

[@hugoboss917]

Lovely silicon lips and botox too

[@BerserkAlfa]

@@alx1138 Χαχαχ

[@captainjacksparrow370]

@@BerserkAlfa Εμπ1

[@andysm1964]

Thank you Anna for such a wonderful presentation of the WLA. My late -Grandmother was a member, always remembered the tales told,particularly working along side Italian and three German POW`S-that in it`s own right is another story.She always said it was such a period that influenced her life,along with meeting her to be husband( after she split from her b/f Fred whom fought in the Spanish civil war -Int brigade).After the war ,the newly weds,went from the Essex farm,still there today in Stanford-le-Hope,Essex, to return,in my late Grandfathers case,to Australia. So seeing this clip and reading comments below,has lifted the spirits in these current dark pandemic day.All the best to you!

[@oniah2]

My 94 yo mother loves your videos she worked in a garment factory during WWII great videos thanks.

[@WorldWarTwo]

That's great to know! We're very honoured to have her as a fan

[@keithorbell8946]

My great-uncle was a farm worker at the start of the war. In the ‘30’s he’d done an agricultural course at the local college, so he was “drafted” to help train Land Girls. Most people that knew him agree this was tantamount to giving the fox the keys to the chicken coup, even when he was 90 he was constantly flirting with the nurses in his old people’s home!

[@Schmidty1]

Haha, that's hilarious!

[@keithorbell8946]

Schmidty He was quite a character, after the War he became a milkman, delivering by horse and cart. That job then led to him getting the job of Huntsman for the Airedale Beagles.

[@Schmidty1]

@@keithorbell8946 Wow, that's really cool! Must've lived an interesting life. I have to admit, I had to use Wikipedia to look up what the airedale beagles was because I'm American and that isn't talked about here. Kind of a British thing it seems like.

[@keithorbell8946]

Schmidty very British. He had a great affinity with animals and while he was Huntsman he had a succession of Arab stallions. He also, as a sideline, was a leather worker, making an authentic Mexican saddle, and making all Harvey Smith’s bridles (Harvey Smith was a British Showjumper, famous in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s).

[@nothandmade9686]

Well you know what they say about milkman 😉

[@cyclone159]

Sparty's and Astrids collaboration produced a great success. You should thank them Anna, you're amazing.

[@jamesbinns8528]

I was not born until the 1950s, and growing up in a rural area, I knew many farm wives who not only kept house and put the meals on the table, but milked ( by hand), tended when chickens and eggs, and also worked in the fields. For 25 years I had a landscape maintenance company. My best gardeners were women. A couple of those women laid sod, and shoveled mulch and top soil with me. There are a lot of tough women out there!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you for remembering those tough women you knew here, James

[@stevenharris8024]

My mother in law served in the Land Army and is still going strong at 94 years old. She really enjoyed this episode but said she disagreed with one comment. She was never too tired to go out after a days work, it was "the best time of her life, all those soldiers around to escort her to dances and the cinema."

[@WorldWarTwo]

We're humbled that you showed her. Thank you very much for sharing her comment. We will have an episode about those dances too by the way!

[@janmayen3483]

With that title it sounds like an angry mob of women is gonna take down the Nazis

[@DasSmach]

in a way that's what happend

[@b1laxson]

You're not wrong...

[@markcantemail8018]

Drakan , yes Humor Ha ha . I did not think you were talking about the Scotts . Thank you for the Video Anna

[@colinmcgrath2392]

If you'd met my grannie, you'd have known that was entirely possible! She came for a generation that built them tough!

[@ivvan497]

Looks like someone didn't play bf5...

[@HistoryHustle]

Love the other perspectives on times of war. I'm really learning stuff here. Cheers!

[@pacthug4life]

Hi Mr.Stephan

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you!

[@RupertAH]

My Grandma joined the Women's Land Service in New Zealand. Until the day she died she said it was some of the best years of her life. She said being in her early 20's and being able to travel and work with ladies and farmers who became life long friends.

[@edward9674]

In Finland families at home, people knitted and stitched socks and scarves for soldiers on the front since there never really was enough clothes there. Just an interesting thing i read about the homefront of Finland.

[@onelyone6976]

Edvard It’s true, and in the winter war equipment for the sodiers was scarce, soldiers used german helmets, russian helmets, whatever they could get their hands on really

[@tomservo56954]

"Bundles for Britain" was a thing in America before the U.S. entered the war.

[@BangFarang1]

In the 1930s France imported groups of women from Yugoslavia to work in the fields due to workforce shortage after WWI (not enough births between 1915-1919 due to the great amount of potential bachelors killed/disabled during the war). The majority stayed for good.

[@XxBloggs]

Indy, you’re looking absolutely beautiful in this video!;)

[@WorldWarTwo]

What a little make up can do... huh!

[@doom1894]

Simp

[@rubycooly2009]

I am indy neidell this are the simp wars

[@Bastienbard]

@@doom1894 but is he simping for Indy or Ann?

[@benismann]

u hate his lips

[@andregurkenstein9192]

When the time comes we definitely need a special episode about the Flakhelfer

[@oLii96x]

HANS GET ZE FLAKHELFER!

[@HontasFarmer80]

There is one mystery it might be interesting for this channel to look into. WHo was this woman. kzbin.info/www/bejne/moK6p2yBpamKe8k this "lost german girl".

[@caprise-music6722]

Hontas Farmer I don’t know much about her, but I know she was a German girl who had “relations” with some allied soldier(s) or more likely allied civilian. that’s one of the reasons why she was beaten. and just the fact she was German. And it was civilian people beating her

[@TheFranssiBrother]

@@oLii96x IT HELFERS FLAK

[@SNOUPS4]

Don't forget the Blitzmädels

[@yourstruly4817]

"This woman...insults me!!" "Quite impressive for a farmer with a pitchfork, wouldn't you say?"

[@Masada1911]

Yours Truly I understood your reference there

[@Curtislow2]

I too,detect a class structure in her phasing. Maybe reserved elitist? I am drawn to here bulbous lips. Was that sexist or a result of my natural attraction to woman?

[@yourstruly4817]

@@Curtislow2 I don't know what you are talking about, it's a modified quote from "The Patriot".

[@Curtislow2]

@@yourstruly4817 Sorry ,I don't know what I am talking about half the time either. Have a blessed day !

[@yourstruly4817]

@@Curtislow2 You too!

[@rosswebster7877]

Well done Anna and Time Ghost Crew! The Home Front series is already off to a great start! So much I never knew about the WLA and damn near criminal that it took so long for their official recognition.

[@cliffclark2285]

I'm a 6th generation farmer, and my grandmother was the one who taught me how to drive a tractor while everyone was working. I could pull a plow by the time I was 6. I've never needed to be taught the lesson that girls could do the same thing as boys, my 5' nothing grandmother showed me this before I could even have such a notion. FYI, her father (my great grandfather) was a medic in WW2.

[@Mondo762]

Women that worked in the war effort in the US have been celebrated for a long time. Factory/shipyard workers and nurses mostly. Also pilots delivering planes.

[@davidspiller7977]

My grandmother was a "Rosie the Riveter" and talked about it a lot. She was so proud of it, I wish I took her to one of the conventions before she died.

[@fashiondollshoes]

This was interesting. I guess we Finns were totally uncivilized at the time as everybody expected women to work on the farms when men were away fighting. Women, old men, boys too young to go to war, everybody did something. Although it wasn't enough as I think the main reason my paternal grandpa's age group (1897-99) was released from service in early 1942 was that they could go home and work on the farms.

[@farhanrahman7119]

If I was a woman during that time,I'd try joining a medical organisation to volunteer and serve the wounded

[@dmoney6005]

You would’ve been the smart woman lol

[@davebell4917]

Britain was surprisingly regimented during the war. It was partly WW1 lessons, trying not to waste people. So my mother left Grammar School and went into nursing, even though she was a farmer's daughter. I'm probably alive now because of what she learned then.

[@caorusso4926]

If i was a men at the time i would have open a food company, escaped the draft by saying that my job is essencial, and invested all my money in the weapons industry, exprecially if i was a american. I liked you idea of "what i would if i was here" really good food for thought.

[@kanewilliams1140]

Let’s not try to one up women on the home front with some matcho idealistic scenario where you are amputating limbs and being close to the front line. Many women did do exactly that, but women on the home front farming played an equally crucial role and this sub series is about that, not everyone’s opinion about what the smart or best idea which they should have done instead

[@Conn30Mtenor]

If I was a young woman I'd be building tanks, machine guns or warplanes. Rosie the Riveter and Wanda the Welder won that war as much as the soldiers did.

[@HalfLifeExpert1]

Wow, i've never heard of the WLA. I love this channel for going into details on WWII information that I've never heard of, despite learning and reading about WWII since elementary school (i'm almost 27).

[@KiwiImperialist]

Did your country have an equivalent organisation during the Second World War? I know I learned about the Women’s Land Service, New Zealand’s version of the Women’s Land Army, in school.

[@HalfLifeExpert1]

@@KiwiImperialist I'm from the US, so I honestly don't know. There was the Bracero Program, which was a deal with Mexico to bring in Mexican farm laborers to help with agricultural production while many men were drafted or volunteered. In the US, women did take up alot of jobs in war industry and performed very well to keep up production.

[@BattleManiac7]

I loved this episode. A part of the war we don't really learn about or hear about often. Sure it's not as exciting as the fighting, but it's an important part of the war too. I never even heard of the WLA until today, and that's a shame. I also found it interesting that some looked down on women farming (and I know the views of the times, but this was War with a capital "W") as something that only continental countries had to do. It's kinda amazing how in both World Wars people completely underestimated how truly large they'll be in scale and intensity. Nothing can be held back in total war.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you - we think tills important to look at this for that very reason; it shows you aspects the _were_ important for the outcome of the war, but might be overlooked for not being sexy enough.

[@JustMe-ce9yo]

Heard many stories about womens involvment, got really interested after talking to by best mates mother about WW2. She worked Anti-Aircraft guns in and around London during the Blitz, some of the tales she had were terrible, but some truly wonderful.

[@wouter.de.ruiter]

Thank you, Anna! You provide a much needed view on how women experienced the war. Normally we only hear about the battles and soldiers.

[@theodoros9428]

Look what happened in Krete against the Paratroopers

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

#mentionLuxembourg

[@Onio_]

#NoOneCaresAboutLuxembourg

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@Onio_ 😭😭😭

[@sebastiandouse]

Would be interesting to know how the hell it lived so long when it is a spec stuck between France, Germany, and Belgium.

[@b1laxson]

"The Mouse That Roared"

[@dylan2478]

Onio #NoOneCaresThatYouDontCare

[@yoloman544]

>15% means greater than

[@paulinewhicker4221]

I'm proud to say my great grandmother was in the land army and that was how she met my great grandfather (who was in the home guard because he was in a reserved occupation but felt he had to do something!) If her "stupid blasted mutt" (great grandfather's words) hadn't knocked him off his bike....

[@b1laxson]

Hmmm. Did she plan the mutt accident?

[@paulinewhicker4221]

@@b1laxson haha! Sadly we'll never know!

[@bjornvaervagen2756]

Wow, great makeup, Indy... 😂

[@Grimmtoof]

It's funny listening to this, I grew up on a farm and my dad was the manger. In the 23 years I was there he only employed 2 female labourers, who were also some of the hardest working and most effective workers he have had.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

Women were not just conscripted into the WLA. My Mum was conscripted into a warplane factory. In fact, it was whilst she was working there that she met my Dad, who was in the 8th USAAF.

[@WorldWarTwo]

We'll get to that as well!

[@azkrouzreimertz9784]

the womans role in WW2 has been so downplayed that it is almost unforgivable, its nice too see some one do them justice!

[@martinwakefield6236]

My mother was in the WLA. We still have her badge etc. There was no way she was going to be put off making a meaningful contribution to the war effort while my father was undergoing the rigours and uncertainty of life in a Japanese POW camp: especially after she lost her twin brother on the Burma Railway. An excellent episode - well done. How about looking at women in transport - tens of thousands on the railways, including in the heavy workshops.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks for sharing and we will look at as many aspects of the home format as we can.

[@grrlpurpleable]

LOVE this addition to the WWII history being explored on this channel - great work! A few women served on the front line, many served behind the front lines as partisans and SOE's but thousands upon thousands kept the war machine rumbling working fields and factories back home. A story so often forgotten when the history favours the 'bloody battles' and 'heroic deeds' of the men in combat. Thank you for this!!!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you

[@brandon074]

My own philosophy on women's rights is this...If you can shove what amounts to bowling ball thru a keyhole, you can do whatever the hell you want. Proud to be a native Wyomingite. First govt. to allow women the right to vote on December 10, 1869 when the Territory of Wyoming was created.

[@farhanrahman2119]

This episode was really nicely done,good job Anna!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks a lot!

[@shaniamonde7341]

My Grandmother was born on a farm, worked on the farm before the war (including driving) worked on the farm during the war and continued after the war. She is 93 now (if my maths serves that puts her at 18 in '39), and said the war had very little effect on her life, she used to watch the bombers fly over, left for Birmingham, right for Coventry.

[@alformodoritos2076]

Another great episode. Thank you for always creating informative content.😊

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you

[@maciejkamil]

I didn't know about the land army existing until now. It's unfair that they were forgotten after the war.

[@hyacinthbucket2683]

Yes! More about women in WWII from Anna please!

[@WorldWarTwo]

There will be more...

[@korbell1089]

The "Professional" farmer's wife probably laughed at the politicians fake tears about forcing these dainty women to farm. On a farm every needed to work and not only did they cook,.clean, and raise children, they worked the fields along with the men especially during planting and harvest. And for their shock about women driving, I would bet most farmer's wives already knew how, because it doesn't matter if hubby broke his arm, that field still needed tilling. Thanks Anna for showing people how Britain tried to keep its people fed during wartime.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@shannahkristin9223]

I'm really loving this segment! Wonderful job, Anna!

[@martijnverveer7720]

The BBC made a three season dramaseries on de Land Girls Army back in 2011 wich is still on air on Netflix

[@SteveJauncey]

There is a British film called The Land Girls

[@davidcullen4197]

While I agree that these young women contributed greatly to the war effort and carried out a hard physical job - I don't think that they should have been awarded the term "war veterans". A veteran to me is someone who fought and survived the war.

[@dezbiggs6363]

Exactly. That's like saying everyone who worked in war factories was a veteran.

[@johnski4709]

The feminist left need their participation trophies.

[@adanzavala4801]

Then all those male farmers that were still in the fields can also be considered war veterans?

[@deekswap695]

Well, those women would really want to take up arms and fight on the front, but it was the backward mentality of the society that prevented that. So, I believe in that standards they deserved such trophies.

[@ianthebarefootwoodworker516]

Lil' Blow Peep a veteran of living through the war. Not so much a veteran of the war.

[@billythedog-309]

l read a very interesting book some years ago and it included a statistical comparison of the combatant nations. Unfortunately, l can't remember all the figures, but when looking at the population of men aged 18 - 40, the prime age for fighting men and comparing that population to the size of the those engaged directly in the war effort, Britain had a far greater proportion than all the other nations at about 120%. This was achieved by men outside the prime age group being in the forces and by the number of women in the WAAC, WREN and WRAF (Womens' army navy and airforce). The Land Army contributed by allowing men on the land to join up. This rather goes against the idea that Germany and the USSR made he greatest overall commitment to the war.

[@dyslexiusmaximus]

did i just see Hitler dancing or clapping in glee during the intro?

[@whocares435-z9v]

If I was a young, unmarried woman in the UK at the beginning of WW2, I'd scream incoherently in shock for a while, before going off and trying to convince someone important that i'm actually a time traveller.

[@SuperLusername]

Amazing video, just wanted to point out that your > and < signs are inverted when you were talking about agriculture in UK, USA and Germany.

[@Masada1911]

Really good interesting episode about an under illuminated topic. I loved the poetry included in it.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you

[@romaniacountryball]

The pitchfork is is an over powered weapon

[@cameronash5492]

I never thought I'd care about the home front of WWII but here I am.

[@WorldWarTwo]

That's the kind of impact we like to have!

[@stevelucky7579]

Maybe I don’t truly understand the sacrifice that was being made, but did the Land Girls really need to be considered “war veterans” for doing farm work? Like I get it if they were near the front lines or even decently close to an active war zone, but they were a good distance away from actual harm right? I mean, they went to the freaking movies on their days off. Like I appreciate them doing basic manual labor for 8 hours a day 6 days a week, but somehow it feels like that besmirches the phrase “war veteran”. I mean crud there were literally women on the battlefield risking their lives for family and country in different parts of the world and I think it’s a disservice to them as well. Maybe “war helpers” would have been better. I’m just rambling at this point.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

My mother did this- at 17 she was sent to pick fruit in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. She had the time of her life, and her love affair with the Okanagan lasted throughout her life.

[@maxsmodels]

My mom worked on a victory farm in the USA. It was not as harsh as it was for British women, but agricultural work anywhere is not for the faint of heart.

[@brickproduction1815]

My grandma was in Malaya during the war but she didn't tell much of her time only my grandpa that fought the Japanese

[@novacat3032]

Conflicting... I can't agree on recognising WLA as war veterans like equal to the vet's that got shot on all the time. I can't stand seeing their dedication and contribution to the war effort disregarded like it was done after the war either...

[@mikeyakus2939]

Well done! Thank you for the presentation.

[@pianowhizz]

Thanks again Anna - as much as we worship Indy, it's always refreshing to have a change from the male American accent. Love from Singapore - hope everyone is well over there in beautiful, green, Deutschland! P.S. Indy, we've heard your great Russian accent, perhaps throw in a few more to spice things up a little :)

[@WorldWarTwo]

While neither Anna nor Indy, I'd just like to say how much I appreciate your comment! Thanks for the support! And there's always Indy's "Churchill" accent

[@joestephan1111]

My father's mother was a crane operator in a steel mill during the war.

[@breaden4381]

I have to say the intro music makes farming sound really ominous

[@1969Risky]

Anna, I noticed a couple of times you looked distained on how women were treated during that time & looked down on. Please remember that you are not comparing that time to modern times. it was just the way things were back then & yes, times were slowly changing. You need to be unbiased when presenting something that does not agree to present day views. We watch these episodes to learn, but also not repeat past mistakes. The Australian Women's Land Army was formed in July 1942 as there was a shortfall in rural labour. It was disbanded in December 1945. The Australian Government only gave them official recognition in August 2012 but medals were issued in 1997. They have taken part in ANZAC marches on April 25th since then recognizing their efforts. Also during the war Victory Gardens, were being implemented. Victory Gardens still exist today in the UK as allotments. The majority still exist on sites that were used during the war. A lot of these allotments in the UK date back before the 1730's. In Sweden it's still popular. Anna Lindhagen wrote in her first book about them...."For the family, the plot of land is a uniting bond, where all family members can meet in shared work and leisure. The family father, tired with the cramped space at home, may rejoice in taking care of his family in the open air, and feel responsible if the little plot of earth bestows a very special interest upon life." Germany as well have allotment gardens starting back to 1864 as a way to combat malnutrition. During the war, urban & farm areas were isolated from each other. Berlin today there are 833 allotment garden complexes. Good episode about the Land Army but just about every country had then during the war period.

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

Meanwhile in Russia: FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL IN SILENCE!!!

[@franciscomoutinho1]

I think someone mixed the signs. At 1:54 she says that in the UK it's less than 15 and in Germany is over 30% , yet on the side under the flags, it indicates it's larger than 15% in the UK and less than 30% in Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_(mathematics)

[@brianjetty2121]

Bravo. Nice segment. Great addition to the time ghost army.

[@AndrewStamelakis]

Loved the poems, loved your narratorial skills! And absolutely fell in love with you!

[@alexamerling79]

Hopefully we get one on the Helferinnen soon. Keep up the good work!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks - we will try to cover as much of the home front on all sides as we can.

[@Catherine_Ea]

Really really like this new series! A lot of things people do not even mention about.

[@Javaman92]

WOW! WELL DONE!!! I was blinking by the end of this. Damn right, you tell em girl! ♥️

[@cgaccount3669]

Were woman trained to fight when the threat of invasion seemed very real?

[@canadious6933]

I'm not entirely sure. Though im sure many were willing to learn or fight, if invasion did happen in 1940 I don't think they would have been ready for a defensive war. Most likely something similar to the french resistance would have formed.

[@SASHAHAG]

Women were used for both espionage and counter espionage by all sides because women were a protected class for the most part. Look at the early years of British secret service.

[@Dimetropteryx]

@@SASHAHAG Protected from what?

[@cv4809]

@@Dimetropteryx from violence or suspicion

[@Dimetropteryx]

@@cv4809 That they were easily underestimated, that I'll grant you, but if you think they have ever been protected from violence, you couldn't be more wrong.

[@theMOCmaster]

Remember when poetry rhymed?? Those women did a great job.

[@hebl47]

Except for the fear - bear part. That one rhymed only on paper ;) But that's dumb english pronunciation fiasco right there.

[@tyberfen5009]

video 6 of demanding the return of cats on vacuums

[@willienolegs8928]

The best so far, showing how the war was really won. Outstanding!

[@ZoSoPage1977]

My god! Those lips!

[@fclp67]

Not gonna lie, the accent makes this a challenge

[@TheHamburgler123]

I can understand her just fine, but her cadence throws me off a bit.

[@augustinbilaine5354]

Loving this new series! Keep up the good work

[@z_actual]

Theres a rather charming feature film about some of this, starring a young woman in a land army position. 'A Canterbury Tale' the film describes Sheila SIm as a woman in the land army, her hopes and dreams, the fate of her pilot husband, the destruction England due to bombing, and services at Canterbury Cathedral on the eve before D Day. It is a lesser known unmissable iconic WW2 British film in the British style. If it doesnt make you cry theres something wrong with you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4XdfamnjZ1mia8

[@arispanagiotopoulos2533]

This is an awesome series, something different and unique than the usual staff about the war. Anna puts a lot of effort and is super adorable! I’d like to see episodes about women’s role in Nazi Germany, from the murderous female SS guards to the girls of the BDM and Hitler Youth etc. Another good idea I believe is special episodes about certain women who manage to become popular and/or influential in their countries and took part in unusual for women at the time roles like Leni Riefenstahl, Hanna Reitsch, Melitta von Stauffenberg or yield power like Magda Goebbels. The same for similar women of all involved countries of course, I’m not familiar with any other apart Nazi Germany’s though.

[@WorldWarTwo]

We’re a chronological format- 1945 is four years away... why would you ask for that as an urgent request one might wonder?

[@arispanagiotopoulos2533]

World War Two Sorry I don’t really get what you’re saying, there’s no “urgency” in my “request” and what 1945 has to do with my proposals? My proposals have to do with the stories of certain women before and during the war not in a particular year. 🤔

[@thomasridley8675]

Its easy to give people opportunities when you need them. Its harder to take them away when you no longer want them.

[@pathutchison9866]

Anna is Awesome. Just when I thought this channel couldn’t get any better, they felt her out with her own segment and it’s incredible every time. I’d say this series belongs on “The History Channel”, but there isn’t enough stuff about ancient aliens guiding the nazis, so The History Channel would never be interested.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@dyerex54]

Love your videos. On March 13 2010 Britain’s Royal Mail issued a special 1st class stamp for the Land Girls .

[@brianwebb6913]

ANNA!!!! Finally. Please make more videos!!

[@Legitpenguins99]

Indy is looking oddly attractive today. Cant put my finger on why

[@yakkityyak9336]

I think it's those marvelously bee-stung lips?

[@SaunKrystian]

Love your non-battle history presentations. Too often, battles are presented as the turning points of history.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you - we like to look at al aspects.

[@argexpert]

Oh. Your voice is much better now. Cool

[@MandalorV7]

I vaguely knew about the land army from a BBC show called Land Girls that my mom watched on Netflix. I just think it’s amazing in general that back then when push came to shove how entire nations were mobilized for the war effort to some degree. It’s not like that today which is good and bad in some ways. Good because we all don’t have to have our lives uprooted by the conflicts. Though that has detached a lot of the civilian population from the conflict and could be part of the seemingly endless warfare that has become part of the 21st century.

[@robert48044]

Yall have done wonderful jobs on your costumes

[@WorldWarTwo]

Anna says thanks

[@Sheehan1]

32% “allowed” to have a job? Do you mean the workforce was 32% female? Or that of all the women, only 1/3 were actually granted permission (??) to earn a wage?

[@joluoto]

The second, only 1/3 of women were allowed to have a job.

[@WorldWarTwo]

The second one indeed.

[@elerillewellyn2654]

@@WorldWarTwo Do you mean because married women were not allowed to work?

[@samsmith2635]

Thank you all for this episode, about time the Land Army is talked about more open than a terrible British Soap Opera. Hosted by: Anna Deinhard Written by: Spartacus Olsson and Francis van Berkel Produced and Directed by: Spartacus Olsson and Astrid Deinhard Executive Producers: Bodo Rittenauer, Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson Creative Producer: Joram Appel Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Tom Meaden Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski THANK YOU! Stay well during this Pandemic

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks! Cheers! Stay safe!

[@davidp.7620]

I expected them to send a division of women armed with pitchforks against tanks in the battlefield

[@richardanderson2411]

The USA farm labor issue was far less severe than Europe's for a number of reasons, particularly since they had not lost much of the prime labor force to WWI, which devastated what would have been the late 30's to 50 year old labor force for WWII. My mother and her two sisters used WWII to escape the farm as jobs became available in the cities. From reports of the era, the loss of ag workers to other industries was more of an issue than the loss of prime aged males to the military. As for women working in ag, family farms were still the norm in 1940 and planting and harvesting were "all hands on deck events" regardless of gender or age....with women actively in labor excused for obvious reasons. It is also important to note that agricultural mechanization had spread wider in North America than Europe because of the larger size of typical farms. While the urban elite might have had the mindset that farm work wasn't for women, I never met a farmer that thought that way (as much as daughters would have been pleased if they did). That perverted mindset is still with us today as urban regulators keep trying to outlaw child labor (under 18 years of age) on family farms.

[@Zhake_the_Mighty_Dragon]

Kinda like an ant colony Workers/Food Finders= The women in the farms Solider Ants= The men

[@dylan2478]

Zechariah haha, I suppose you must a ant keeper/ lover

[@dylan2478]

Zechariah haha, wel that is why you need to catch a queen and not just the ants. You should try it, it’s a fun thing to do, especially in these quarantine times😉

[@Aeyekay0]

I Like these videos, it’s good to take step back from the history of the front lines and look at how life was back home

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you!