Nazi Policies towards women Flashcards

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What were Nazi views on women and the family?

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  • women should be housewives and mothers
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What was the aim of the Reich’s Women’s Leader?

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making German women servants of the German state and Hitler

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What was the German Women’s Enterprise?

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a new Nazi organisation, if any organisations refused to join, they were banned, had 6 million members

Hitler was able to control all of the women’s groups in Germany

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Why were Nazis concerned of the decline in birth rate?

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fewer German workers and soldiers later on

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What was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage?

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1000 marks were provided to encourage young couples to marry

encouraged wives to stay at home as loans were only provided if the women didn’t work

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What Divorce Law did the Nazis introduce?

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if a wife would not or couldn’t have children, husband could divorce them with this reason

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What was the Mother’s Cross?

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  • encouraged childbirth, award given to the number of children they had
  • Hitler Youth were ordered to salute to those awarded gold medals
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What was Lebenborn?

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initially provided financial aid for women, than encouraged single women to breed with SS/ ‘genetically pure’

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What policies did the Nazis introduce to reduce the number of women at work?

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  • banned from professional posts such as teachers, doctors,civil servants, 36,000 women had given up work
  • no women could become a judge, layer or even do jury service
  • Schoolgirls were trained for motherhood, housework
  • grammar schools for girls were banned
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What were the ‘three Ks’?

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kinder, Küche, Kirche

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Why did they want to reduce the number of women at work?

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believed a women’s place was at home, raising a family

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How effective were the Nazi policies?

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many women did not support Nazi ideas, they believed it degraded women

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Why were some of the Nazi policies towards women temporary?

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German industry was expanding so fast that the Nazis needed women to return to work, five million in 1933

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