Not in huge numbers ofcourse but they were there and considering the times it was a very unusuall thing.
So yeah, there is a reason why they are here.
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The Germans had much more, uh, backwards views on whats a "men's job" and whats a "women's"
so, as desperate as they were, they never deployed women, at least not in the numbers as the Soviets.