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Nazi Germany 1933-39: Role of Women 1933-39 Flashcards

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Summarise Nazi policy on women

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  • Idolised, children as a key focus
  • Propaganda campaign
  • Female sport encouraged for fertility
  • Mothers’ Cross (4, 6, 8)
  • Not expected to work
  • 15% teachers and civil servants sacked
  • KKK
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What was education like for women?

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  • Age 10 = Jungmadel
  • Age 14 = German League of Maidens (Bund Deutscher)
  • KKK enforced in education
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What was the Nazi policy on marriage for women?

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  • 1933 Law for Encouragement of Marriage

- 1934 Ten Commandments for Choice of Spouse

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What was the Law for Encouragement of Marriage?

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Newlyweds gained 1000 Mark loan

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What was 10 Commandments for Choice of Spouse?

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Encouraged Aryan women to marry well and keep purity

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6
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Summarise employment for women

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  • Taken out of labour market

- Dismissed from professions 1934

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When were women dismissed from professions?

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1934

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What physical constraints were placed on women?

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  • No make up, dye or perms
  • Flat shoes to be worn
  • No slimming allowed
  • No smoking
  • Hair in buns or plaits
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9
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What was the breeding programme?

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  • Women seen to have biological purpose
  • Mothers’ Cross incentive
  • Encouraged unmarried women to have children (Lebensborns)
  • Contraception and abortion banned
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