4. Life for Women and the Family Flashcards
What did Hitler promote the importance of?
Hitler promoted the importance of a stable, traditional family.
What were the Aryan ideals for men?
Menwere to be in charge and protect their family.
What were the Aryan ideals for women?
Women were to serve and nurture their family.
What did Hitler want to use families for?
Hitler wanted to use families to increase the size of the population and to ensure it was pure Aryan.
Thus, the Nazis wanted women to reproduce healthy Aryan children.
What did the Nazis believe about Aryans?
The Nazis believed that the German people were descended from a ‘perfect’ Aryan race.
‘Aryan people’ had blond hair, white skin and were regarded by the Nazis as a ‘master race’.
The Nazis believed this race’s blood had been ‘tainted’ by the ‘impure blood’ of other races throughout the years.
Hitler and the Nazis wanted to return to an Aryan race and women played a crucial part in this.
What Law introduced a loan for families?
1933 Law to Reduce Unemployment- this law introduced a 600 mark loan given out that was reduced by 25% for each child
conceived.
This gave rise to the colloquialism abkindern (from ab, off, and Kind, child) for discharging the loan by producing offspring.
What did the Nazis give after 1935 in terms of welfare allowances?
After 1935 families were given welfare allowances for having large families.
What were the Mothers of large families given the right to?
Mothers of large families were celebrated and given the right to go to the front of queues.
What did the Nazis do after 1938 for women with large families and on what date?
+ After 1938 on ‘Mothering Sunday’ - the date of Hitler’s mother’s birthday - women were awarded for having
large families.
+ Women with 8 children received the gold ‘Honour Cross’. These women also received lower tax
and increased state benefits.
What did the Nazis do in terms of contraception and abortion?
Contraception and abortion became harder to obtain.
Where did Nazis encourage unmarried women to live?
After 1935 unmarried women were encouraged to live in Lebensborn houses where they would be visited by
members of the SS.
What did the Nazis encourage Childless couples to do and how did they help it happen?
Childless couples were encouraged to divorce, after 1938 divorces for childless marriages became easier to
obtain.
What did the Nazis encourage women to do in terms of work?
Within a year of the Nazis coming to power most
female doctors and teachers had been
‘encouraged’ to leave the profession.
What did the Nazis ban women from doing in 1933?
They banned women from taking jobs in the Civil Service.
What did the Nazis ban women from doing in 1936?
They banned women from becoming judges.
