Hitler: Domestic Policies on Women and Workers

Question 1

Aims with policies on women

Answer 1

1. Increase birthrate
2. Ensure women marry Aryan men
3. Ensure fitness and health
4. Restrict education
5. Keep women out of key jobs and politics
6. Ensure women are enthusiastic

Question 2

Goebbels PSQ about women

Answer 2

“The first, best and most suitable place for the women is in the family, and her most glorious duty is to give children to her people and nation”

Question 3

Policies for women

Answer 3

• In 1933 over 50% of women voted for Hitler due to the depression
• Nazis want to reverse the Weimar right to vote and increased employment opportunities
• Women are forced out of key jobs and education is reduced
• Expected to increase the birthrate, as expanding the population is essential for Lebensraum

Question 4

Policies for workers

Answer 4

• Trade unions are abolished as part of Gleichschaltung
• German Labour Front was established to take the role of unions, but they value work over rights and safety
• Propaganda, “We stay as comrades”, links DAF to WW1, white and blue collar united (1933)
• Lost freedom, but gained in other ways

Question 5

Robert Ley

Answer 5

“Dissolving the organizations that kept alive the antagonism between employers and employees. They were replaced by the DAF”

Question 6

Gov’t Statement about the role of the DAF 1933

Answer 6

“All workers will stand side by side with employers, no longer separated into groups and associations” “aim of the labour front is to educate all Germans… to support the Nationalist Socialist State and indoctrinate them”

Question 7

Control/2 Organizations

Answer 7

• ‘Beauty of Labour’, ensuring facilities, meals and work spaces are in good shape
• ‘Strength through joy’ bribing workers with trips, movies and theatre tickets, ensured workers had no time for anti-state activities
• encourage work communities with ‘councils of trust’, worker discussions with plant leaders