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Role of Women in Nazi Germany
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- 1What were some Nazi policies towards women?The Gleichschaltung process: To bring all 230 women's organisations under one body
Women groups banned Jews
Gertrude Scholtz-klink appointed women's leader of Germany in 1934 - 2What were some Nazi ideals of women?No makeup
blonde, heavy hipped, athletic
flat shoed, full skirts
did not smoke or work
did housework
no interest in politics - 3Why were the nazis determined to change the role of women in terms of family?They were concerned by the decline in the live birth rate
- 4What laws were introduced in terms of marriage and family?+ abortions were banned (except for Jews)
+ Encouragement for marriage: loans provided the wife left her job
+ divorce was possible if someone was infertile
+ Sterilisation law: sterilising mental ill
+ Marriage Health Law: stressed racial purity - 5What organisations and programs were set up in terms of marriage and family?+ Lebensborn (fount of life) : women could 'donate' babies to SS men
+ German Women's Enterprise: Classes & radio talks on motherhood
+ on Hitler's mother's birthday medals were given to mothers of big family - 6What are some Nazi organisations for women?+ Young girls league
+ League of german maidens
+ Faith & beauty society
+ Women's front
+ Reich mother's society - 7How did women's appearances change?+ keep healthy
+ hair in a bun or plaits
+ discouraged from wearing trousers, high heels, & make up, dying or styling hair and slimming - 8How did women's role in the workplace change?They were not to work & were expected to follow the three 'Ks' - Kinde, kuche, kirche (children, kitchen, church). school girls were taught to work at home and discouraged from going into higher education.
- 9At first, what were the economic benefits of less women working?Every job left, could be filled be a work, so the perceived employment rates went up.
- 10Why did the role of women in the work place change at the beginning of WW2?Men were joining the army & women had to fill jobs again.
- 11How did women's lives change in terms of concentration camps?Women who disagreed with Nazi ideas, communists, Jehovah's witnesses, breakers of nuremberg laws, abortionists, & jews were sent to camps
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- Year 11 (The Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany) History Fichas sobre Role of Women in Nazi Germany, creado por lily bevan el 15/03/2018.
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