Nazi Germany: Women and the family Flashcards
What were the Nazi views on women
The three Ks (Kinder, Kuche, Kirche) (Children, Kitchen Church)
Believed women’s lives should revolve around these
What did the Nazis expect women to do?
Stay at home, look after family and produce children for security of Aryan race
What were the Nazis views on women in employement
encouraged thousands of women out of work especially women in professional jobs such as teachers and doctors
After 1933 women couldn’t join civil service
What were the Nazis views on women’s appearance
Women couldn’t wear make up, trousers or high heels
Slimming was discouraged as well as smoking
What id the Nazis do to encourage women to start families and give birth
600 marks loan given to mother and father, loan reduced by 25 percent per child
1935 onwards women with large families given welfare allowance
Hitler’s mother’s birthday women with large families were celebrated with gold honour cross awarded for those with 8 children
Encouraged childless couples to divorce
How did the Nazis do to get women to give birth
contraception became harder to obtain
Lebensborn houses set up where unmarried women encouraged to live, could be visited by SS members and impregnated .
What was the 1933 Diseased Offspring Law
Certificate signed by a doctor to be allowed to marry
Law also meant doctors could sterilise women deemed unfit by 1939 350,000 women sterilised
How did the Nazi Policies on women and the family be limited
birth rate only slightly increased
many women especially manual labourers kept their job, due to duty year women employment rose
marriage increased at first but levelled off soon
