4.1 Nazi policies towards women Flashcards
what were Nazis beliefs on women appearance?
should adopt ‘natural’ look
Included:
-hair tied back
-long skirts
What were nazis beliefs on women Employment(2)
-women should stay at home to raise family. instead of working,
[because Nazis believed men were main bread winners. So i women were in work, they would take mens jobs]
-disapproved women in medicine and law professions
What were nazis beliefs on women role in marriage and family?
-women increase birth rate=bigger Germany=marriage vital for lot of children
-women devote lives to feeding family
-women do housecraft (needing work/cooking)
who did the nazis appoint in 1934 as Reich womens leader, and what were her intentions?
Scholtz-kink, she had intentions of making German women’s servants to the german state and hitler
What did Scholtz-kink do that changed women organisation?
insisted women organisations merge into one, called ‘Germans women Enterprise’/’DFW’, if not, then they were banned.
(1939, 1.7 million women attended nazi courses on childcare and cooking, in DFW activites)
what were the polices on women in marriage and family in Nazi Germany
-the law for the encouragement of marriage 1939
-1938 divorce laws
-the mother cross
-1935 lebensborn programme
what was the law for the encouragement marriage?
1939,
-Young couples received loans of 1000marks to encourage marriage.
-women should stay at home
-only available if women stopped working
-every child born, meant a quarter of loan written of
how did Nazis change the divorce laws?
1938, if wife didn’t have child, or had abortion, then husbands would be allowed to divorce wife
[used to encourage childbirth]
What was the mother cross?
Award given to women for the amount o children they had.( bronze medal 4, silver medal 6, gold medal 8), where Hitler youth would salute gold medallist.
What happened if a mother gave birth to 10 children in nazi Germany?
10th child Name Hitler as godfather, and if boy, call him Hitler
What was the Lebensborn programme?
1935, encouraged childbirth stated by heinrich Himmler. Which provided nurseries and financial aaid for women, if married SS men. Later used to create genetically pure children.( (1938-41) helped 540 mothers give birth)
What were the nazi policies towards women employment?
-[1933] women banned fromprofesional posts like teachers.
-[1936] women couldn’t be a judge or lawyer
-school girls trained for motherhood, not work(taught housework)
-1937, grammar schools for girls were banned,
What was the impact on nazis changes to women employment?
-end of 1934, 360000 women had given up work
-1927 female students in higher education reduced by 11,000 rom 1932 to 1939
How effective were nazi policies towards women?
-some germans persuaded, and accepted the policies,
-nazis fulfilled desires, [less women in university and increase birth rate.]
-some women disapproved, as they degraded women
-disliked domestic status
-dislike reich women leader
What happened by the end of 1930s?
Nazis needed women back in work cause of Germanys expansion.
