Women In Nazi Youth

Question 1

What were the Nazi attitudes for women?

Answer 1

-> In schools and Hitler Youth organisations girls were taught 3Ks

-> Kinder, Kuche and Kirche

-> Resented due to taking jobs from men in 1930s

Question 2

What were the experiences of Women

Answer 2

-> Awarded a “Gold cross” for having 8 children

-> Radio broadcasts, posters and newsreels celebrated the ideas of motherhood

Question 3

What was the German Maidens’ League

Answer 3

-> It focused on the combination of physical health and household skills

Question 4

What was the purpose of the SS run organisation for women?

Answer 4

-> To encourage unmarried women to bear children for Fuhrer by getting impregnated by SS.

Question 5

What was a result of the SS run organisation for women?

Answer 5

-> Birth rate had increased from 15 per thousand in 1933 to 20 per thousand in 1939

Question 6

What happened in 1937 for women

Answer 6

-> Women pushed back into industrial sector

-> Able to get some women

-> Women were still encouraged to get children

Question 7

What was the camp system for women?

Answer 7

-> A system made for women who were undesirable

i.e: lesbians, communists, Roma and disabled

NOTE: 4,000 women were in these camps

Question 8

Women who resisted Nazi rule

Answer 8

-> Women represented 15 percent of the resistance in Nazi movements

-> 20 women in Dusseldorf passed down information to foreign governments about concentration camps.

-> Maria Terwidd helped many Jews flee abroad