Three-way turnout from the points and retarder production operation of Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser in Hamborn-Bruckhausen, ca. 1916.
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In the First World War industrial production, which initially suffers a sharp decline, soon expands again to support the war effort. As at other steel companies, Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser produces armaments, including artillery shells and tracks for light railways. As in the rest of Germany's war economy, Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser compensates for labor shortages by employing women, Belgian civilians and prisoners of war.
During the First World War, women working in industry was a common sight: seen here briquetting flue dust from the Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser blast furnaces in 1918.
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