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06. WORKING WOMAN
06.01.01 / Flowers bring joy (woman with basket), (Advent)
[Photo taken: Hanover, December 1930]
06.01.02 / Flowers bring joy
[Photo taken: Georgstraße, Hanover, March 1931]
06.02 / Buy matches, everyone needs them
[Photo taken: Seidenhaus Koopmann, Georgstraße, Hanover, April/May 1932]
06.03 / In the dark you see nothing
[Photo taken: Central Station, under the bridge, Hanover, between March and June 1933].
06.04 / The team
It is arduous to bring the cart with the little that the people still had to sell to the weekly market in town. A draught horse was already a luxury. The radical reduction in benefits in the years since 1931 had hit women particularly hard. Unemployed wives were only granted unemployment benefits after a thorough means test. According to the emergency decree of June 1932, the unemployed received little more than ten Reichsmarks a week.
(Wiechers, Hans-Peter, in: Harte Zeiten. Menschen in Hannover 1930–1933, Springe 2016)
[Photo taken: Hanover, May 1931]
(Wiechers, Hans-Peter, in: Harte Zeiten. Menschen in Hannover 1930–1933, Springe 2016)
[Photo taken: Hanover, May 1931]
06.05 / The Dairywoman
[Photo taken: Pavillonstraße, Hanover, March 1931]
06.06 / The sweepings
06.07.01 / The secret
[Photo taken: Hanover, June 1932]
06.07.02 / The secret
[Photo taken: Hanover, June 1932]
06.08 / "There"
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, July 1931]
06.08.01 / "You mean"
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, July 1931]
06.09 / "I don't care if they get it. Mine has already been unemployed for 3 years ..."
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Hanover, July 1931]
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