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Impact of Nazi Regime on Women (Incentives/Restrictions (Allowances,…
Impact of Nazi Regime on Women
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"Then it may perhaps be said that the woman's is a smaller world. For her world is her husband, her family, her children and her home" - Adolf Hitler
Isla McKee a member of League of German Girls said;
"We were told from a very early age to prepare for motherhood, as the in the eyes of our beloved leader and the National Socialist Government was the most important person in the nation. We were Germany's hope in the future, and it was our duty to breed and rear the new generation of sons and daughter."
Overview
Importance of a stable, traditional family. Men were to be in charge and protect their family whilst women were to serve and nurture.
Hitler said this was the natural order
Hitler wanted to use families to increase the size of the population and to ensure it was pure Aryan
Expectations
Education
Everything they did would prepare them for womanhood
Limited education, mostly influences
Taught to embrace the role of mother and obedient wife in school
Compulsory membership of the Nazi League of German Girls
Large focus on outdoor pursuits of sport
Social (appearance)
"Equal but different from men"
Traditional German peasant fashions
Plain Clothes
Flat Shoes
Hair in buns of plaits
No makeup trousers or short skirts
Discouraged from stayed slim or dieting
Employment of women was discouraged until outbreak of war
Home life
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (Children, Kitchen, Church)
Law for the Encouragement of Marriage
Loan of 1,000 marks, and allowed them to keep 250 marks for each child they had
Nurturing role of Women
Motherhood Cross which awarded bronze for 4 children, silver for 6 and gold for 8 or more
In War
Served as guards in Nazi camps
Secretaries in the Nazi machinery of destruction
Supportive wives of SS officers
Nurses in the Euthanasia Program
Incentives/Restrictions
Allowances
Reduced loan repayments
Outlaw of non-German marriages
Jobs were restricted
Abortion was illegal except Jews and 'undesirables'
Contraception restricted