Nazi Social Policies towards women

Question 1

What did the Nazis oppose about women ?

Answer 1

• greater emancipation for women

Question 2

Nazi reaction of a low birth rate throughout the 1920s ?

Answer 2

• viewed the declining birth rate with alarm as it threatened their aim to expand Germany and settle in new acquired territories

Question 3

What was the main Nazi policy for women

Answer 3

• to raise birth rates

Question 4

Nazi aims for women ?

Answer 4

• increase birth rates
• restrict the employment of married women outside the family home

Question 5

Nazi policies towards women in the ai to rise birth rates and restrict employment outside the home ?

Answer 5

• Marriage loans were introduced for women who left work and married an Aryan man.For each child born, the amount of loan that had to be paid was reduced by a quarter
• The Nazis awarded medals to women for ‘ donating a baby to the Fuhrer “
• Birth control was discouraged.Abortion was severely restricted
• Women were encouraged to adopt a healthy lifestyle, with plenty of exercise and no smoking or drinking

Question 6

Nazi Policies towards women to promote their values ?

Answer 6

• The German Women ‘s League was set up to coordinate all women’s groups under Nazi control
• The National Socialist Women’s Organisation was an elite organisation to promote nation’s ‘ love life, marriage, the family, blood and race “
• The Reich Mother’s Service was a branch pf the DFW for training ‘ physically mentally able mothers ‘

Question 7

What was the German Women’s League ?

Answer 7

• coordinated all women’s groups under control

Question 8

German Women’s League attendance and impact ?

Answer 8

• DFW had 6 million members by 1939
• political indoctrination

Question 9

What Was the National Socialist Organisation ?

Answer 9

• elite organisation to promote nation values

Question 10

Impact and purpose of the NationaL Socialist Organisation ?

Answer 10

• primarily an organisation for propaganda and indoctrination among women to promote the Nazi ideology

Question 11

What was the Reich Mother’s Service ?

Answer 11

• branch of the DFW training mothers

Question 12

What was the attendance and purpose of the Reich Mother’s Service ?

Answer 12

• purpose was to make them convinced of the important duties of motherhood, experienced in care and education of their children
• By March 1939, 1.7 million women attended its motherhood training services.

Question 13

How were the Nazi policies toward women successful ?

Answer 13

• campaign to raise birth rate had some success
• influenced women through propaganda and indoctrination to gather more support

Question 14

Limitations of success of Nazi policies towards women ?

Answer 14

• the improved economic situation encouraged couples to have more children
• the number of women the workforce increased between 1933 - 1939 as ideology had to give way to economic realities
• labour shortage in 1936 after rearmament process began to encourage women to take up employment

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