Nazis policies towards Women (1933-39)

Question 1

What phrase defined women’s role under the Nazis?

Answer 1

‘kinder, kirche, kuche’- ‘children, church, kitchen’

Question 2

What was the effect of Nazism on women’s jobs?

Answer 2

State employed women lost their jobs

Question 3

What did the Nazi ideal for women frown upon?

Answer 3

• Diets
• Smoking
• Inappropriate fashion (e.g trousers)

Question 4

What did the Nazis ban for women?

Answer 4

Abortion + contraception

Question 5

On what terms and how much were newly married couples offered money?

Answer 5

• 1,000RM loans
• If wives gave up their jobs
• Loan written off if they produced 4 children

Question 6

What did mothers receive if they had 8 kids?

Answer 6

Gold crosses

Question 7

What was the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 7

SS men impregnating single Aryan women

Question 8

How many extra babies were born because of the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 8

10,000

Question 9

By how much did birth rate increase?

Answer 9

20 per 1,000 people up from 15

Question 10

When did the shortage of workers begin?

Answer 10

From 1937

Question 11

What did the Nazis do to combat this?

Answer 11

• Nazis ended the marriage loan scheme
• New female workers had to perform a ‘duty year’ of
  unpaid work on farms

Question 12

How many women worked in 1944?

Answer 12

15 million (an increase from 1933)

Question 13

Did the expectation that women should work and perform the role of a mother succeed or fail?

Answer 13

Largely failed (despite women in work increasing)