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Flashcards by Farha Idrees, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Farha Idrees
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What was the role and importance of women in Nazi Germany? | • they had very traditional views on the role of a woman, believed they should adopt the traditional role of mother and housewife, whilst the man provided for the family |
| The Nazis were also a very ____-oriented/dominated organisations - all Nazi leaders were ____ . | The Nazis were also a very male-oriented/dominated organisations - all Nazi leaders were men. |
| The Nazis wanted women to: | • have a 'natural face'- simple hair + long skirts • stay at home + raise a family • marry + have many children |
| What were Nazi views on women in education and employment? | - They believed that a woman's place was at home, raising a family - The Nazis had several policies to reduce numbers of women in the workforce |
| How did they reduce the no. of women going into work and give some examples. | through propaganda ↓ they tried to persuade women to behave differently • Nazi posters → showed women as wives and mothers • Nazi speeches → encouraged women to leave work and become housewives • the 3Ks was taught → Kinder |
| What were some new policies introduced in order to stop women entering work? | → 1933; women were banned from professional jobs, e.g. teacher, doctors, civil servants → 1936; dismissed from any job related to the law → school girls were trained for motherhood and housework; not work → 1937; grammar schools (prepared girls for uni) were banned → discrimination against women applicants for jobs was encouraged |
| Why did the Germans encourage marriage and childbirth and how? | The Germans wanted to reverse the fall in birth rate (fewer children = fewer workers+soldiers later on) ↓ they made several changes to the laws and introduced new policies to encourage marriage + childbirth |
| What was the German Women's Enterprise and how did it help the Nazis? | The New Women's leader, Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, insisted that all women's organisations must merge with the new Nazi organisation, the GWE ↓ this gave Nazis control of all the women's groups in the country and allowed them to spread their ideas about women |
| the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage | this gave newly weds a loan so women could leave work + have children |
| the Mother's Cross | an award given to women for the no. of children they had; bronze - 4 silver - 6 gold - 8 |
| Lebensborn | programmes set up to encourage women to breed with SS men and create 'genetically pure' children |
| How did Hitler control the physical appearances of women? | Through propaganda women were encouraged to wear modest clothes, with their hair tied back, in plaits, or in a bun They were discouraged from dyeing their hair or wearing make-up |
| Nazi policies towards women convinced some Germans and has some impact- | -but only were effective to a limited or temporary degree |
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