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How successful were Nazi policies towards women (Women should not work…
How successful were Nazi policies towards women
Increase Birth Rate
Policies
Birth control clinics were shit down now ; abortions made illegal
After 1938, divorces were allowed if they could not have children
They would increase maternity benefits, women give more money
Allow partners to remarry and have children with someone else
Law of encouragement of marriage (1933)
Lebensborn was introduced
Loans were offered to young couples, for each child they had they paid 25% less of the loan
Allowed unmarried women to become pregnant by a racially pure SS officer
Main aim was for women to have more children
Success
By 1939, 3 million women received bronze mothers cross
Divorce rate increased and people able to have children with other people
From 970,000 babies born in 1933 to 1.4 million born in 1939
12,000 extra children born under Lebensborn programme
Birth rate increased
Failure
12,000 children rarely knew their father
Birth rate only went up because wages increased
Lebensborn programme was criticised for having sex outside marriage
Wages increased 27% between 1933 and 1939
Women were put off from having children
Higher wages meant people could afford more children
Most couples continued to have only 2 children
Traditional family role
Mother Cross medal was given to women who had 4+ children
German Women's Enterprise Movement educated adult women in cookery skills
Propaganda praised women as home makers
Girls were educated domestic science which taught them how to cook and clean
Women should have a role of bringing up children
Success
Women felt like they were important to the Nazi life
Propaganda was largely successful in promoting motherhood
GWE had 6 million member by 1939
Failure
In 1937, Naxis were forced to change marriage loan schemes
Concentration camp for women was set up at Moringen in 1933
By 1935, women had to go work
Women should not work
Nazis sacked women from government jobs. Doctors, civil servants and teachers were forced to quit jobs
At schools, girls were given limited education
Only 10% of university places could be offered to women
Taught how to sew, cook and clean
Women were given a worse education
Not taught on how to do other jobs
Women should leave their jobs to focus on children
Success
Big fall in number of female lawyers and academics
By end of 1934, 360,000 women had left their job
Failure
Many employers preferred female workers because they were cheaper
Women who had a job increased by over 44% between 1933-39
Many women went back to work after 1935 when rearmament started
Women's wages remained 60% of a mans