1.4 Aspects of Life - Nazi Dictatorship

Question 1

What phrase regarding women did the Nazis adopt and why?

Answer 1

Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
appealed to conservatives
familiar

Question 2

Why did the Nazis heavily focus on increasing births?

Answer 2

declining birth rate when came to power
blamed on womens movement and Jewish sabotage

Question 3

What was the SS Marriage Order?

Answer 3

31 December 1931
SS only allowed to marry Aryan women

Question 4

What happened to women in the civil service?

Answer 4

30 June 1933
those with working husbands dismissed

Question 5

What was the fitness-to-marry certificate?

Answer 5

18 October 1935
required to prove racial ‘purity’

Question 6

What happened to women working in law?

Answer 6

excluded 1936

Question 7

What was the Mother’s Cross

Answer 7

award introduced 1939
awarded on Mothers Day
bronze - 4 children
silver - 6
gold - 8

Question 8

What did the Nazis do to Mothers Day?

Answer 8

national holiday
on Hitlers’ Mother’s birthday

Question 9

When was abortion banned?

Answer 9

26 May 1933

Question 10

What were doctors required to do from 1935 on?

Answer 10

report all miscarriages
suspected abortions would be investigated by the police