Women Flashcards
What was the Reich’s Mother Service and when was it?
-1933
-train women about their great duties
What does Kinder, Kuche and Kirche stand for?
-women’s roles in society
-kitchen, church and children
What was the Motherhood cross/Muttterkreuz?
-medals for women who had more than 4 children
How many children did women have to have to get the bronze medal?
-4
How many children did women have to have to get the silver medal?
-6
How many children did women have to have to get the gold medal?
-8
When was the Lebensborn programme set up and by who?
-1935
-the SS
What was the Lebensborn programme?
-racially desirable women who were unmarried and pregnant could have their child without the social stigma
-encouraged to have children via Lebensborns and then the child was adopted by an Aryan couple
When was the Law of Enforcement of Marriage?
-1933
What was the Law of Enforcement of Marriage?
-newly married couple were given £1,000
-if they had 4 children they wouldn’t have to pay it back
-for each child they had they would gain 1/4 of the loan
When were women dismissed from their professions?
1934
When were women not allowed to be judges or sit on jury?
-1936
What are the positives in the Nazis controlling women?
+increase in births->women embraced the need for population increase
+they were removed from government jobs
How had birth rates improved from 1933 to 1936?
-30%
What is a negative about the Nazis controlling women to do with employment numbers?
-1933>11.48 million employed
-1936->11.7 million employed
-1939->12.7 million employed
-employment numbers increased so it was less successful stopping women working
Name one positive change that had occurred for women in the Weimar era?
-the right to vote
Why were women a key group for the Nazi Party to focus their policies on?
- influence over the children
-1,000 year Reich->population growth=large army
-reproduction
What does KKK stand for?
-Kinder, Kurche, Kirche
-kitchen, children, church->remind women of what their priorities should be
According to the Nazis, how were the roles of men and women different?
-men’s role was more important than women but thy knew they couldn’t do their job without women
-a women’s job was to support the men in the role they had to do
-women’s role wasn’t inferior it was different->he knew women’s role was vital
How much had birth rates increase?
30%
When did women employment increase by?
-1939->shows policies were less successful due to only removing women from governmental work
