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Nazi policies towards women - Coggle Diagram
Nazi policies towards women
The ideal Nazi woman
Natural appearance - long hair tied back and no makeup
Stay at home and not go to work
To wear traditional clothes
To be aryan 'blonde hair blue eyes'
To marry and have children
To believe in the Nazi ideologies - specifically 'Kinder, Kuche, Kirche' (children, kitchen, church)
To be sturdily built
Nazi policies
Women shouldn't work, especially married women. Many professional women lost their jobs and were replaced by men
Women should get married. The marriage Law gave marriage loans to newly married couples if the woman stopped working
Women should have at least 4 children (1/4 of marriage loan repayments were let off for each child)
German women's enterprise gave women medals for having children - gold medal for 8 children, silver for 6 and bronze for 4. ALSO, the 10th child had to be named Adolf
How successful were the policies?
Number of employed married women fell drastically
Number of marriages increased
Birth rate increased
German women's enterprise had 6 million members - this suggests that many women welcomed Nazi policies
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
German slogan translated as 'Children, Kitchen, Church' to describe the role of women in Nazi germany
Reich Woman's leader was appointed - Gertrude Scholtz
Gertrude created the German women's enterprise and this slogan to encourage women to abide by the Nazi rulings