What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals.

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What is more boring for a soldier in his twenties than to be in bed. Let's smoke a cigarette











Lazarett in Italy


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Lazarett in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz, Poland)



We are alive!

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This very young soldierwithout his two arms and smiles happily at the camera...

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Serious freezes on the eastern front caused thousands of amputees with one or both legs







Making custom orthopedic legs for the wounded was a constant activity



And sooner or later, for the lucky ones, it was time to go for a walk outside the hospital, even with the help of crutches. And maybe never come back to the front






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See you soon. Next up will be the nurses.
Take care you all



Santi

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To continue the thread perhaps I should say which nurses we are not going to talk about.





For example, the idea is not to talk about nurses awarded with the Iron Cross and other medals.





Not about Elfriede Wnuk seriously injured on the eastern front.



Neither from Hanny Weber and Geolinde Münch nurses from Afrika Korps.



Another pic of Hanny Weber



Nor of Ilse Schultz and Grete Fock, two other nurses from Afrika Korps.



Ilse Schultz



Grete Fock



Although it must be admitted that she was very photogenic



Nor of Greta Grafenkamp, nurse at the siege of Breslau.





All of them winners, along with a few others nurses, of the Iron Cross, 2nd Class. But it is not them that we want to talk about.

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We could also talk about what these four actresses have in common, two Austrian and two German: Senta Berger, Vienna, (1945); Maria Furtwängler, Munich, (1966); Felicitas Woll, Homberg, (1980) and Miriam Stein, Vienna, (1988).

Well, they have in common first being actresses and secondly having played the role of German nurses during the Second World War. Their roles, some better known than others, have contributed to forging our image of these German nurses.



Senta Berger







Cross of Iron (1977)



Felicitas Woll





Dresden (2006)



María Furtwängler



Fateful Years (2011)



Miriam Stein





Generation War (2013)

As a teenager I remember how impressed I was by the film by Sam Peckimpah and the nurse with the feldbluse of her wounded soldier on her shoulders. Very recently we have seen the young nurse from the TV series "Generation War" in her role in what appears to be one of the great military hospitals in Smolensk.

But although they have been part of our popular image of the true DRK Krankenschwerter, or even that I feel a certain weakness when I see Maria Furtwängler in almost any role ..... No, they are not the hospital nurses that we are going to talk about.

The idea is to talk about others, of many others with names like Ursula, Ilse, Hildegard, Gerda, Ingeborg, Helga, Gertrud, Liselotte, Edith, Erika, Gisela, Annelise, Margarethe, Margot, Erna, Herta, María ...

The real nurses of the German Red Cross (DRK Schwestern) who treated wounded german soldiers in hospitals.

Of those we will share some images.

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Rather, I am thinking here of the thousands upon thousands of anonymous women who became nurses and worked in countless hospitals to care for the constant flow of wounded on all fronts of combat.



A large group of nurses in Vienna



Those in this group are also Austrian







Some of these officers are more attentive to the nurses than to the soccer game



Break time







Of course many times with the patients in their hospital ward


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Who is happier: the nurse or the soldier?

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Special for René







Taking a break in Pleskau (Pskov)



She is not as pretty as Senta Berger nor is her soldier as decorated as James Coburn, but she is a proud nurse











The previous five images belong to the same photo album.









How long is a day in the hospital ... you also have to help pass the time to the convalescent.

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Of course, there were very veteran nurses, including those who were already mothers of front-line soldiers, but between 1939 and 1945 dozens of thousands of young nurses joined the service at the Reserve Hospitals.

Whether a woman seems attractive to us is an absolutely subjective matter. Although I think there is a certain type of German female beauty.

Maybe of this kind



Or maybe this one



Of course, to talk about pretty nurses, I can't forget a compatriot of mine. The last nurse in the Blue Division: María Cristina de Orive (1919-2012) This young woman from Madrid took care of the Spanish soldiers who were recovering from their injuries, mainly in the Riga and Königsberg hospitals. I suppose her wounded soldiers must have felt lucky to be cared for by his angelic hands.



María Cristina de Orive

Talking about the Spanish soldiers of the Blue Division and the German nurses, this photograph that I upload below is well known.



But back to that authentic German beauty, in my opinion, enjoy this photo from my collection.


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I also upload the back of the photo, because it is interesting to see that it was taken in a photography studio in Kalish, the current Kalisz, which was Polish territory before the war and returned to it, is halfway between Possen (Poznan) and Lodz

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The nurses were young girls who were highly motivated with their service but who faced the harsh reality of the destroyed bodies of so many wounded and sick young soldiers.

They felt compassion for the injured young men, because for a woman of 18/21 years old, facing the mutilated bodies and the serious injuries every day was (according to many of them they confess in their memories) a very traumatic experience.

For their part, the wounded soldiers who, transferred from the horror of the front, suddenly found themselves in a bed of clean sheets and delicately healed and cared for by the gentle hands of a young nurse. It must have seemed like a real dream.

And as the wounds on their bodies gradually heal as they regain health, it is not even necessary to say what the hearts of thousands of young men felt in that situation.


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Everyone who has ever been admitted to a hospital, in which one inevitably feels dependent and helpless, knows that relationship of gratitude and affection that arises towards the nurse who cares for you.Well, it is not difficult to imagine what all this becomes between a young man and a youg woman.
This last part of the thread I have called it, the look of love.



My God, I can't stop smiling when I look at him ...



The look of love again...