Women under nazis Flashcards
What was the ideal Nazi woman
Aryan - blonde hair, blue eyes, athletic, no makeup, hair in flats, sturdy build for children, flat shoes, plain clothes
What were women expected to do
Bear children for the third reich
Care for husbands
Look after homes
What were the attitudes which shaped women’s lives - 3 Ks?
Kinder - children
Kuche - kitchen
Kirche - church
How did Nazis persuade women to marry
Passed a law for encouragement of marriage
Gave married couple loan of 1000 marks
What was the ‘pro natalist’ policy
women have lots of children to increase Aryan race
How did children help with he 1000 mark loan
for every child you had you wouldn’t have to pay back 250 marks
= 4 children won’t have to pay at all
What was the motherhood cross (incentive to have children)
4 children = bronze medal
6 children = silver medal
8 children = gold medal
How did the birthday rate increase 1932-1938
1932 - 15 babies per thousand
1938 - 19 babies per thousand
How were women kept at home?
- Discouraged from working
- 1933 women banned from having professional jobs
- By 1934 360,000 women given up work
- propaganda stressed women should never take jobs from men
- 1936 women could no longer become judge or lawyer
How effective were the policies against women working
not very - women were cheap labourers and female employment rose by 2.4 million between 1933-1939
What was female education like
- women discouraged from attending university from 1937 forbidden
- 1932-1939 - female students in higher education fell 17,000 to 6000
- look after husbands and family
- german women’s enterprise (DFW) taught women how to run their home
- Schools began to teach girls domestic skills
What was the women volunteer programme
(known as race farms)
Aryan women could have baby with member of the SS
These babies were believed to be the purest of Aryans
How many members were there of the DFW
6 million
How many women had attended Nazi teaching courses in 1939
1.7 million
e.g childcare, cooking, sewing
What were the divorce laws
1938 - if wife could not have children or had an abortion this could be used as grounds for divorce for husbands
