Treatment of Women and their families in Nazi Germany

Question	Answer
The "three Ks" that the women were asked to stick by.	Kinder, Kuche and Kirche (Children, Kitchen and church)
Traditional view of women	1. Did not wear makeup 2. blonde, heavy hipped and athletic 3.flat shoes, full skirts 4.did not smoke 5. Did not work 6. Did all household duties 7. No interest in politics
By how much did birth rates drop to by 1933?	less than 1 million a year
What did Goebbels do about birth decline?	Launched a propaganda campaign to promote motherhood and large families
Law of the Encouragement of Marriage	1933- aimed to increase the falling birthrate. giving loans to help young couples marry. couples were allowed to keep 1/4 of the loan for each child born.
Divorce law	The divorce law was changed so that a couple could get divorced if they could not have children.
Motherhood Cross	on Hitler's mother's birthday (12 august) medals were awarded to women with big families.
Lebensborn	Programme set up which allowed unmarried women to donate a baby to Hitler by becoming pregnant by racially pure SS men.
Women's encouragements	1. Keep healthy 2. Hair in bun or plaits.
Women's Discouragements	1. Dying Hair 2. Slimming 3. wearing Makeup 4. High Heels 5. wearing trousers 6. Styling their hair

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