What is War widow?
A '''war widow''' is a [[widow]] who lost her [[husband]] in a [[war]]. In the Second World War, about 5.5 mililon German soldiers were killed. After the war, there was about one million war widows in [[Germany]]. These people had lost their husband either in the [[First world war|First]] or Second World War. These widows were classified as being [[Poverty|poor]]. Most of them were [[Single parent|single parents]], who still needed to raise their children. There was another problem: the money they received from the state was only paid as long as they were a widow. If they remarried, they would no longer get this money. This meant that many of them lived together with a new man, who helped raise their children, but which they could not marry. {{Stub}} [[Category:Social issues]]