Nazi policy 4) Women Flashcards
Nazi policy 4) Women
a. Before (3)
b. Nazi ideals (7)
c. Changes (3)
d. How successful were these policies? (2)
Nazi policy 4) Women
a. Before (3)
i. Political (3)
ii. Economic (3)
iii. Social (I’m guessing just flappers (or -esque) though) (4)
Nazi policy 4) Women
a. Before (3)
i. Political (3)
- Women over 20 could vote.
- Took an increasing interest in politics.
- By 1933, 1/10 of the members of the Reischtag were female.
Nazi policy 4) Women
a. Before (3)
ii. Economic (3)
- Many took up careers in the professions especially: (4)
- Those who worked in civil service earned the same as men.
- By 1933 there were 100,00 women teachers and 3,000 doctors
Nazi policy 4) Women
a. Before (3)
ii. Economic (3)
1. Many took up careers in the professions especially: (4)
a. Civil service
b. Law
c. Teaching
d. Medicine
Nazi policy 4) Women
a. Before (3)
iii. Social (I’m guessing just flappers (or -esque) though) (4)
- Women went out in public unescorted.
- Drank and smoked in public.
- Fashion conscious
- Short hair, skirts, and wore makeup
Nazi policy 4) Women
b. Nazi ideals (7)
i. No makeup
ii. Blond, heavy hipped, athletic.
iii. Wore flat shoes and full skirt.
iv. Did not smoke.
v. Did not go out to work.
vi. Did all household duties, especially cooking and bringing up children.
vii. Took no interest in politics.
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
ii. Work (6)
iii. Appearance (5)
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
- In 1900 more than 2 million live birth but in 1933 it was less than 1 million.
- Massive propaganda campaign to promote motherhood and large families.
- The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage. (3)
- Mother’s Cross (3)
- Changed divorce law (2)
- Lebensborn Programme (8)
- German Women’s Enterprise (2)
- Rising birth rates could have been the policies but could have been the end of the depression.
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
3. The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage. (3)
a. Introduced on 1st June 1933.
b. Gives loan of 1,000 Reichsmarks to Aryan couples to marry provided the wife left her job.
c. For each child they have they can keep 250 of them so they don’t have to pay it back.
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
4. Mother’s Cross (3)
a. Bronze award for 4/5 Children
b. Silver for 6/7
c. Gold 8+
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
5. Changed divorce law (2)
a. 1938
b. Could get divorced if one of them was infertile.
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
6. Lebensborn Programme (8)
a. “Life Springs”
b. Originally an organisation set up in 1935 by Himmler.
c. Provided homes and maternity care for unmarried Aryan mothers.
d. There are 10 of these homes by 1939.
e. Evolved into…
f. Sleeping with a “racially pure” SS man.
g. Some babies raised by mother, many raised by families of SS officers and raised by Nazi doctrine.
h. There were 11,000 babies born as a result of this.
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
i. Marriage and Family (7)
7. German Women’s Enterprise (2)
a. A new international organisation
b. Organised classes and radio talks on household topics and motherhood.
Nazi policy 4) Women
c. Changes (3)
ii. Work (6)
- 3 K’s (2)
- Women giving up work beneficial to Nazis because they promised jobs and every job a woman left a man could have.
- Women doctors, civil servants, and teachers forced to leave jobs.
- By 1929, the number of working women was lower than there was in Weimar.
- Need working women conscription and rearmament meant that there were increasing jobs in factories and not enough men to do it
- From 1937. (3)
