women under the Nazis

Question 1

what was the slogan adopted by the Nazis to describe the role of women?

Answer 1

Kinder Kuch Kirche

Question 2

what was the main aim set for women by the Nazis?

Answer 2

to have more kids and bring them up

to take care of the house and their husbands

stop women in paid employment

Question 3

what was the NSF?

Answer 3

Nationalist Socialist Womanhood

Question 4

how many women in the Nazi Reichstag?

Answer 4

0

Question 5

how did eugenics affect the role of women?

Answer 5

the Nazis encouraged pure German couples to breed

there were laws to stop pure and impure Germans from breeding

Question 6

how did the Nazis promote marriage?

Answer 6

couples were given marriage loans but only for the racially fit

Question 7

how did Nazis help with families?

Answer 7

the ‘suitable’ families would be given help with school fees and transport fares were provided for the families

an interview would have to be taken to differentiate between suitable and unsuitable family

Question 8

what was the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 8

started in 1935 by a branch in the SS

aim was to produce healthy Aryan children

selected SS men would breed with as many ‘racially pure’ young women

the programme had its own hospitals, clinics and children homes

Question 9

who adopted babies from the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 9

the children were adopted by ‘fit’ Germans couples who had trouble concieving

Question 10

what was the biggest affect of Nazi policies on women?

Answer 10

many lost their jobs and also could not find any work

Question 11

what happened to ‘professional’ women?

Answer 11

they would be sidelined to lower departments which did not suit their expertise:

• female doctors could only work in maternity wards
• female teachers could only teach in lower schools
• female civil servants could only work in women departments

Question 12

how many unmarried women had WW1 left.

Answer 12

1.8 million

Question 13

what did the Nazis believe was the main aim for women?

Answer 13

• to have more children and bring them up
• to care for the house and their husbands
• stop paid employment for women

Question 14

what was the cap on university students being female?

Answer 14

10%

Question 15

how big of a loan was given to women who left their jobs to get married?

Answer 15

interest free loan of RM 600

Question 16

what was the role of organisatiosn such as the NSF and DFW?

Answer 16

were supposed to enhance the party’s anti-feminist ideology
through social, educational and cultural programmes

Question 17

how could anti-feminism and rearmament coincide?

Answer 17

if economic growth was slowed down

Question 18

number of women employed in 1937

Answer 18

5.7 million

Question 19

number of women employed in 1939

Answer 19

7.1 million

Question 20

why did women remain underemployed during the war?

Answer 20

• Germany’s poor economic mobilisation
• women were less convinced in working in arms factories
• women took on responsibilities in farming

Question 21

how many Lebensborn were born during the Nazi regime?

Answer 21

11,000

Question 22

what were some policies directed at women by the Nazis?

Answer 22

marriage loans
renewal of the anti-abortion law
restriction to contraception
reduction in income tax

Question 23

when were marriage loans introduced?

Answer 23

June 1933

Question 24

after how many kids was income tax removed?

Answer 24

6

Question 25

what jobs were German women prevented from doing?

Answer 25

medicine
law (ew)
civil service

Question 26

what was the set quota for female university students?

Answer 26

10%

Question 27

how powerful were organisations like the NSF and DFW?

Answer 27

had little power

when they did try to make a radical change they were discredited

Question 28

what was the award which glorified motherhood?

Answer 28

the Honour Cross of the German Mother

Question 29

were the Nazis successful at limiting divorce?

Answer 29

NO
divorce rate continued to increase to 38.3 per 10,000 couples

Question 30

were the Nazis successful at promoting marriage?

Answer 30

YES
figures for marriage remained consistent

Question 31

how many children were born from the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 31

11,000

Question 32

concl on Nazi policy on women

Answer 32

was more contradictory and incoherent

was idealistic but not practical (having women not work too difficult a task)

stats show it was not as effective as hoped

Question 33

how many women worked from 1943 as a part of the war economy?

Answer 33

400,000

Question 34

from when could women join the armed forces?

Answer 34

October 1940

Question 35

when was compulsory service introduced for women?

Answer 35

January 1943
all women aged 18 to 40

Question 36

by the end of the war, what role were women playing in warfare?

Answer 36

they were trained and stationed at AA guns as well as running signal stations

Question 37

why was the need for a woman workforce in wartime Nazi Germany uneccesary?

Answer 37

the conquest of foreign land gave the Nazis a massive foreign workforce who could do the labour intensive work instead of German women

women were themselves reluctant to work in wartime and organisations also refrained from emoloying women

Question 38

by how much did women employment increase between 1939 and 1944?

Answer 38

2%