Nazi policies towards women

Question 1

What was the ideal women in the Nazi’s view?

Answer 1

Aryan women, no makeup, hair in plaits, plain clothes and flat shoes

Question 2

What were women expected to do in Nazi Germany?

Answer 2

Look after the home and bear children of the Third Reich.
Encouraged to be sturdy in their build to bear children

Question 3

What were the three Ks by which women were meant to follow?

Answer 3

kuche (kitchen), kinder (children), Kirche (church)

Question 4

What Law did the Nazis pass to encourage marriage? What did this law entail?

Answer 4

the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
- provided the wife left her job

Newly-weds would be given loan of 1000 marks

Question 5

was the the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage successful?

Answer 5

Marriage numbers rose, however that may have just been due to the improvements of the economy

Question 6

How could families involved in the the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage pay back their loan without money?

Answer 6

Every child they birthed would allow them to keep 1/4 the loan.

Question 7

What happened on Hitler’s mother’s birthday? ( 12 august )

Answer 7

Women with large families were given medals

Question 8

What was the Motherhood cross?

Answer 8

Another incentive to have children
Bronze Medal given to mothers with 4 children
Silver Medal given to mothers with 6 children
Gold Medal given to mothers with 8 children

Question 9

How did the birthrate increase 1932-1938

Answer 9

1932: 15 babies per 1000
1938: 19 babies per 1000

Question 10

What did the Nazi divorce law in 1938 state?

Answer 10

A divorce is permitted if the couple can biologically not have children
led to increase in divorce 1939

Question 11

What was the Lebensborn

Answer 11

A program where specially chosen unmarried women got impregnated by SS men to “donate a baby to the Fuhrere”

Question 12

What was the German Women’s enterprise?

Answer 12

A radio show which talked about household topics and skills of motherhood

Question 13

How was university enrolment limited to women?

Answer 13

only 10% of admissions could be women

Question 14

What was the law that prevented people with disablilities from having children by sterilising them?

Answer 14

Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily diseased Offspring 1933

Question 15

How many people were sterilised as a result of the Law for the Prevention of Genetically diseased Offspring

Answer 15

320,000

Question 16

what was the law that encouraged racially pure marriage

Answer 16

Law for the Protection of the
German Blood and Honour 1935

Question 17

How did Nazis attempt to stop women from working

Answer 17

Banned women from having professional jobs from 1933
Propaganda stressed that women were not to steal jobs from men

Question 18

Were Nazi attempts to stop having women in work successful?

Answer 18

No, they were cheap labourers
female employment rose by 2.4million between 1933-39

Question 19

What happened in 1937 that lead to women going back into work?

Answer 19

Germany was rearming so men were joining the army. Therefore they needed women to take over the jobs men left behind

Question 20

What was the compulsory “duty year” for women entering employment?

Answer 20

This usually meant helping on a farm or in a family home in return for bed and board but no pay.

Question 21

What was the name of the concentration camp women were sent to if they protested against Nazi ideas and policies?

Answer 21

Moringen