What The Germans Did to Captured Female Soldiers Was Worse Than You Imagine In WW2 For 80 years, the world was told a lie. The stories of the first women in modern warfare—American WACs, British ATA pilots, and French resistance fighters—were buried, classified, and forgotten. Until now. This documentary uncovers the dark, hidden system used by German forces in World War II to secretly detain, “process,” and break captured female soldiers. No Red Cross inspections. No official records. No Geneva

As a Union burial detail was burying bodies after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, they made a startling discovery near Cemetery Ridge. Among the bodies covering the ground from one of the Confederate attacks during the battle was the body of a dead woman wearing the uniform of a Confederate private. While not much is known about this woman, she was one of many women to don a soldier’s uniform and fight in the Civil War on both the Union and Confederate sides. Learn more: https://www.battl