Heinrich Ratjen
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Heinrich Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. In
Ratjen in 1937
Ratjen's winning 1.63 m (5 ft 4.2 in) jump at the 1937 German Athletics Championships
Reich Labour Service
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The Reich Labour Service was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and
Heinrich Ratjen
…According to Der Spiegel, Dora, then Heinrich Ratjen, who later called himself Heinz, was issued a new ID and work papers and taken to Hanover by the Reichsarbeitsdienst "as a working man". He later took over the running of his parents' bar, refusing requests for interviews before his death in 2008. In 1957, Ratjen's…
An RAD squad in 1940
RAD members working in the field, East Prussia, 1938
RAD members digging a trench for a RAD flak battery in March 1945