Policies towards women

Question 1

What was the normality of Weimar women in the cities

Answer 1

Free and independent
Equal pay
Politically active
Sexually liberated
Equal career opportunities
Visible in public life
Educationally active

Question 2

What were the Nazi aims of women

Answer 2

Dependent and faithful to husband
Unemployed
No say in politics
Non educational

Question 3

What did women get if they left work

Answer 3

Marriage loans

Question 4

What happens to the amount of marriage loan that had to be paid back with every child

Answer 4

Reduced by 1/4

Question 5

How did the medal system work with women and having children

Answer 5

Bronze = 4-5, Silver = 6-7, Gold = 8, women’s equivalent of an iron cross

Question 6

What happened to birth control and abortions

Answer 6

Severely discouraged and restricted

Question 7

What type of a lifestyle was encouraged

Answer 7

Healthy

Question 8

What were the 3 organisations for women

Answer 8

German woman’s league, national socialist women’s organisations and Reich mother’s service

Question 9

When was the German women’s league created

Answer 9

1933

Question 9

What type of things did German women’s league focus on

Answer 9

Domestic science

Question 10

What was the German women’s league memberships in 1939

Answer 10

6 million

Question 10

What percentage of German women’s league women were not Nazis

Answer 10

70%

Question 11

When was the National Socialist Women’s Organisation created

Answer 11

1931

Question 12

What did the National Socialist Women’s Organisation promote

Answer 12

Love life, marriage, the family and blood and race

Question 13

What type of people were in the National Socialist Women’s Organisation

Answer 13

Child rearers and homemakers

Question 14

How did the National Socialist Women’s Organisation spread Nazi messages throughout

Answer 14

Propaganda and indoctrination

Question 15

What was the Reich Mother’s Service

Answer 15

Branch of the German women’s league

Question 16

What did the Reich Mother’s Service consist of

Answer 16

Training programme for motherhood (care, education and domestic tasks)

Question 17

What was the Reich Mother’s Service membership in March 1939

Answer 17

1.7 million

Question 18

Who organised the lebensborn programme

Answer 18

Himler

Question 19

What was the aim of the lebensborn programme

Answer 19

To get aryan women to use the facility in order to create an aryan race

Question 20

How did women enter the lebensborn programme

Answer 20

They had to apply which looked at all of their background

Question 21

How many people passed the application and was accepted in the lebensborn programme

Answer 21

40%

Question 22

What happened to 6-12 year olds rom other countries that looked aryan in the lebensborn programme

Answer 22

Their parents were killed and the child was taken being told that their parents had left them

Question 23

What happened to the birth rate during this period

Answer 23

It rose

Question 24

Why was it suggested that it wasn’t the policies towards women that rose the birth rate

Answer 24

As many believed the stable economy played a part in the birth rate as people were now financially stable to have their own family now too

Question 25

What happened to the number of women in the workforce between 1933 and 1939

Answer 25

It increased

Question 26

Why did the number of women in the workforce increase even though it went against Nazi ideology

Answer 26

Showed they were preparing for war by having women oversee more jobs and so rearmament was able to stay of schedule