Topic 4 Women

Question 0

Women’s role

Answer 0

To be supportive of warrior men
Breed genetically pure Germans
Vision of Homemaking and childbearing

Question 1

Nazi policy towards women was

Answer 1

reactionarry, an attempt to reduce greater opportunities and freedom

Deaths of men ude to war provided even further opportunities

Question 2

Family

Answer 2

Germ cell of the nation

Question 3

Family was contradicted by the policy to

Answer 3

Promote the master race by racial pure Germans producing children in brothers outside of marriage
Effectively selective breeding

Question 4

Women were encouraged to

Answer 4

See men as breadwinners but their removal from the workplace lowered unemployment figures which was contradicted during war years when policy of total war is needed

Question 5

Nazi ideal

Answer 5

KKK kinder kuche kirche

Question 6

3 organisations formed to indoctrinate women

Answer 6

Germans women enterprise
National socialist womanhood
Reich mothers service

Impact seemed limited apart from reinforcing male dominated nazi view of women’s place in society

Question 7

Workers

Answer 7

Forced to join DAF german national labour front
Right to bargain for higher wages was removed
Strikes illegal
Working hours increased