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[summer] Nazi policies towards women
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- 1What 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
- 2The 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.
- 3The Nazis wanted women to:• have a 'natural face'- simple hair + long skirts
• stay at home + raise a family
• marry + have many children - 4What 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 - 5How did they reduce the no. of women going into work and give some examples.through propaganda
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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 - 6What 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 - 7Why 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)
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they made several changes to the laws and introduced new policies to encourage marriage + childbirth - 8What 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
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this gave Nazis control of all the women's groups in the country and allowed them to spread their ideas about women - 9the Law for the Encouragement of Marriagethis gave newly weds a loan so women could leave work + have children
- 10the Mother's Crossan award given to women for the no. of children they had;
bronze - 4
silver - 6
gold - 8 - 11Lebensbornprogrammes set up to encourage women to breed with SS men and create 'genetically pure' children
- 12How 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 - 13Nazi policies towards women convinced some Germans and has some impact--but only were effective to a limited or temporary degree
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