The primary responsibility of the average German woman during the early war years would be to contribute to society by tending to the homestead and producing many children with a strong National Socialist upbringing.  Other common activities included helping to organize and participating in women’s groups such as the Frauenschaft and overseeing youth organizations such as the Bund Deutscher Madel were common. Unlike other countries at the time, female service in the military was not considered  as ideal as producing and sculpting the future of the Reich. As the war progressed,  unforeseen changes  caused the country to pull together by mobilizing the majority of the population which enabled women to become more involved with taking on other supportive roles.  A viable option during this time was to become a member of the German Red Cross.   Aachen Stadt I originated as a bereitshaft, or readiness group from the city of Aachen. As the war progressed , personnel were pulled from safe zones of the cities and moved closer to the front to help augment and repopulate the medical ranks on or near the front lines.  Aachen Stadt I (reenacted) portrays a late war group of DRK helferin and nurses.