Nazi Policies towards women Flashcards
What were Nazi views on women and the family?
- women should be housewives and mothers
What was the aim of the Reich’s Women’s Leader?
making German women servants of the German state and Hitler
What was the German Women’s Enterprise?
a new Nazi organisation, if any organisations refused to join, they were banned, had 6 million members
Hitler was able to control all of the women’s groups in Germany
Why were Nazis concerned of the decline in birth rate?
fewer German workers and soldiers later on
What was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage?
1000 marks were provided to encourage young couples to marry
encouraged wives to stay at home as loans were only provided if the women didn’t work
What Divorce Law did the Nazis introduce?
if a wife would not or couldn’t have children, husband could divorce them with this reason
What was the Mother’s Cross?
- encouraged childbirth, award given to the number of children they had
- Hitler Youth were ordered to salute to those awarded gold medals
What was Lebenborn?
initially provided financial aid for women, than encouraged single women to breed with SS/ ‘genetically pure’
What policies did the Nazis introduce to reduce the number of women at work?
- banned from professional posts such as teachers, doctors,civil servants, 36,000 women had given up work
- no women could become a judge, layer or even do jury service
- Schoolgirls were trained for motherhood, housework
- grammar schools for girls were banned
What were the ‘three Ks’?
kinder, Küche, Kirche
Why did they want to reduce the number of women at work?
believed a women’s place was at home, raising a family
How effective were the Nazi policies?
many women did not support Nazi ideas, they believed it degraded women
Why were some of the Nazi policies towards women temporary?
German industry was expanding so fast that the Nazis needed women to return to work, five million in 1933
