Nazi policies on women, education and culture

Question 1

What were the Nazi ideas on women?(2)

Answer 1

Women should focus on their traditional roles as homemakers and childbearers
This is from their desire to build a healthy master race

Question 2

What were 4 Nazi policies towards women?

Answer 2

Loans could be obtained by married couples
Taxes were reduced for those with children
Anti-abortion laws were enforced
Women were restricted to only 10% of university places

Question 3

What were the results of Nazi policies towards women? (3)

Answer 3

Birth rates increased to 20.3 per 1,000 Germans in 1939
More women actually worked as rearmament was not really feasible without female labour
Rate of marriage did not really increase in the 1930s

Question 4

What were the two Nazi women organisations?

Answer 4

National Socialist Womanhood (NSF)
German Women’s Enterprise (DFW)

Question 5

What were the roles of the Nazi women organisations?

Answer 5

Did not participate in politics but did promote Nazi ideology regarding women’s role

Question 6

What were Nazi ideas about children and education?

Answer 6

Children were essential for the future of the Aryan race and had to be taught the Nazi ideology and made to serve the state

Question 7

What were Nazi educational policies? (3)

Answer 7

Teachers would be educated about Nazi ideas
Jewish teachers were removed
Education would reflect Nazi values

Question 8

What was the role of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 8

Offered military training. It was made compulsory in 1939

Question 9

What was the impact of the education policies?

Answer 9

decline of educational standards as the curriculum focused on physical fitness

Question 10

what were the Nazi cultural policies?(3)

Answer 10

banned or even burned any books written by Jews or communists (berlin 1933)
modern art was as degenerate
Art was supposed to promote Nazi ideas