TOPIC 6 Life For Aryan Women

Question 1

What was the Nazi aim for aryan women?

Answer 1

To become housewives or mothers because Hitler would need a vast Aryan population to rule lands conquered by the Nazis

Question 2

In what ways did the Nazis control Aryan women?

Answer 2

Using the law, incentives and sterilisation/imprisonment

Question 3

How did the Nazis restrict women’s careers in 1933?

Answer 3

All women sacked from their jobs couldn’t work in civil service

Question 4

How did the Nazis restrict women’s careers in 1936?

Answer 4

Couldn’t become a judge

Question 5

What did was marriage loan scheme of 1933?

Answer 5

Offered 600 mark loan to women to left their job to get married. For every child you had you didn’t have to pay 25% of the loan back, meaning if you had 4 children you didn’t need to pay it back

Question 6

What were welfare grants?

Answer 6

Increased taxes for childless couples, which would be used to pay for couples with children

Question 7

What were the honour crosses?

Answer 7

Women were given a cross for their number of children (bronze = 4, silver = 6, gold = 8)

Question 8

What was Lebensborn?

Answer 8

After 1935 unmarried women were encouraged to live in Lebensborn homes so SS men could impregnate them - ensure babies were racially pure

Question 9

What were the changes to abortion, contraception and divorce laws?

Answer 9

Much harder to get contraception/an abortion (became illegal in 1933). Divorce was encouraged to couples who didn’t have children so they could have kids

Question 10

What was the Nazi Women’s League?

Answer 10

Set up in 1931, led by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, 2 million members

Question 11

What was the law for the prevention of hereditary diseased children?

Answer 11

Nazis sterilised people with disabilities who might produce ‘imperfect children’ (their goal was to create a master Aryan race)

Question 12

What could happen to women if their children looked dirty or poorly fed?

Answer 12

Could be sent to concentration camps

Question 13

How did the Nazis control women’s appearance?

Answer 13

Couldn’t wear makeup, trousers, discouraged slimming and hair only in a bun or plaits

Question 14

Did the Nazis succeed in their plans for Aryan women?

Answer 14

Number of marriages and babies born rose slowly, women weren’t removed from the workplace - many still worked in rearmament factories

Question 15

What was duty year?

Answer 15

Created in 1937. Forced women to do factory work during WW2 due to the employee shortages