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Women in Nazi Germany - Flashcards
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- 1What were the aims of Nazi Policies towards Aryan women?Hitler had very clear ideas about the woman's role in the Nazi state - she was the centre of family life, a housewife and mother.....
- 2What do the Three K's stand for?Kinder - Children
Kueche - Kitchen
Kirche - Church - 3How were women more liberated in Weimar Germany?Women had equal rights to men.
Women could vote.
Many women worked for a living. - 4What was the Nazi's idea of an ideal woman?A woman who would...
- look after children and husband
- not wear make-up, wear trousers, or smoke
- be Aryan
- be fit and healthy
- have lots of children - 5How were women enouraged to have larger families?The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage gave newly wed couples a loan of 1,000 marks, and allowed them to keep 250 marks for each child they had. Mothers who had more than eight children were given a gold medal. Unmarried women could volunteer to have a baby for an Aryan member of the SS.
- 6How did the Nazis aim to control childbirth amonsgt 'non aryan' women?Almost 100,000 women forcibly sterilised under the law for the prevention of diseased offspring.
- 7How did Rearmament affect Nazi Policies?Women were needed in the workplace, particularly on farms and in factories.
War work became compulsory for adult women in 1942. - 8How successful was the aim of stopping Aryan women of working?Fairly successful, numbers of working women fell dramatically.
BUT when war broke out this process was reversed.... - 9How successful was the aim of encouraging Aryan women to have more children?Not very successful. Birth rates incresed slightly but did not match the 1920's boom.
- 10How successful was the Nazi's racial policy regarding Non-Aryan women?Very successful. Women were either sterelised so they couldn't have children or them and their children were killed.
- 11Did the Nazis feel their treatment of women was 'unfair'?NO - HItler said all along that woman were 'seperate but equal'.
It was all about roles in society - 12How did the Nazis implement the idea that women should remain at home?Increase expectation - Women were expected to stay at home and look after the family.
Laws - Women doctors, teachers and civil servants were forced to give up their careers - 13Family by Wolf Willrich: How does this re-inforce Nazi values re the role of women?There is a large family - four children
She wears a plain, peasant dress.
She has her hair in a bun; she is not wearing make-up.
The mother is not skinny.
The family lives in a rural/farming environment
The younger daughter is playing with a doll - preparation for motherhood.
The elder sister has plaited hair (acceptable fashions), and gazes longingly at the baby (longing for motherhood).
The family have fair hair, athletic bodies and ruddy complexions - they are the ideal Aryans.
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- A revision flash card deck for the topic of women in Nazi Germany.
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