![Women making grenades at the steelworks in Osnabrück, 1915.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/granatenproduktion-300x225.jpg)
Travels in Germany during the First World War
Despite the dangers, Jean Bucher, boss of a Swiss manufacturer of agricultural machinery, travelled to Germany several times during the First World War. With him he carried his travel diaries, in which he impressively captured daily life in a country at war.
![Jean Bucher on a hunt, circa 1935.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/jean-bucher-ca-1935-quelle-225x300.jpg)
![A food stamp that Jean Bucher brought back from his trip to Germany.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/lebensmittelmarke-1-welkrieg-300x208.jpg)
…besides the female tram guards, there are now female train guards too…The daily wage for female rail staff is 2.50 Deutsch Marks plus war allowance.
![The first journey by female tram guards, Dresden, 1915.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/dresdner-schaffnerinnen-205x300.jpg)
![Postcard showing a female postal worker, circa 1916.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/brieftragerin-1-187x300.jpg)
Everyone fled to the basement. A shower of bullets rained down on the atrium window. The detonations were audible, sometimes loud like a barrage, then dying away, and then all of a sudden, a loud noise that caused the building to shake.
![Apollo-Theater in Saarbrücken, circa 1900.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/saarbruckenapollo-lichtspiel-theater-wikipedia-soloctobris-300x208.jpg)
![Spartacists guarding a street in Berlin, 1919.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/spartakisten-in-berlin-300x220.jpg)