Women

Question 1

What was the Reich’s Mother Service and when was it?

Answer 1

-1933
-train women about their great duties

Question 2

What does Kinder, Kuche and Kirche stand for?

Answer 2

-women’s roles in society
-kitchen, church and children

Question 3

What was the Motherhood cross/Muttterkreuz?

Answer 3

-medals for women who had more than 4 children

Question 4

How many children did women have to have to get the bronze medal?

Answer 4

-4

Question 5

How many children did women have to have to get the silver medal?

Answer 5

-6

Question 6

How many children did women have to have to get the gold medal?

Answer 6

-8

Question 7

When was the Lebensborn programme set up and by who?

Answer 7

-1935
-the SS

Question 8

What was the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 8

-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

Question 9

When was the Law of Enforcement of Marriage?

Answer 9

-1933

Question 10

What was the Law of Enforcement of Marriage?

Answer 10

-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

Question 11

When were women dismissed from their professions?

Answer 11

1934

Question 12

When were women not allowed to be judges or sit on jury?

Answer 12

-1936

Question 13

What are the positives in the Nazis controlling women?

Answer 13

+increase in births->women embraced the need for population increase
+they were removed from government jobs

Question 14

How had birth rates improved from 1933 to 1936?

Answer 14

-30%

Question 15

What is a negative about the Nazis controlling women to do with employment numbers?

Answer 15

-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

Question 16

Name one positive change that had occurred for women in the Weimar era?

Answer 16

-the right to vote

Question 17

Why were women a key group for the Nazi Party to focus their policies on?

Answer 17

• influence over the children
  -1,000 year Reich->population growth=large army
  -reproduction

Question 18

What does KKK stand for?

Answer 18

-Kinder, Kurche, Kirche
-kitchen, children, church->remind women of what their priorities should be

Question 19

According to the Nazis, how were the roles of men and women different?

Answer 19

-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

Question 20

How much had birth rates increase?

Answer 20

30%

Question 21

When did women employment increase by?

Answer 21

-1939->shows policies were less successful due to only removing women from governmental work