Hitler: The Women

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  • Created on: 17-11-22 09:58
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  • Hitler: The Women
    • Aims
      • Declining birth rate
        • 1900: 2mill+ babies born 1933: Less than 1mill
        • Female employment increased by a third
      • Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
        • Women's place in the family home
    • Women and Family
      • Marriage loans - 1933
        • 600RM, interest free
      • Restrictions on contraception and anti-abortion laws
      • Observe the  10 Nazi Commandments
      • Birth rate peaked in 1939 before declining
      • Divorce rate rose, marriage rate constant
      • 11,000 children born through Lebensborn programme
        • Women not wishing to marry could be impregnated by ** members
    • Women and Work
      • 1933-36 - Married women barred from jobs such as medicine and law
      • Number of female teachers and uni students fell
        • Only 10% of students were permitted to be female
      • % of women in employment fell from 37% (1932) to 31% in 1937
        • % increase from 31% (1937) to 33% in 1939
      • Reversal of decline of jobs in 1935 due to rearmament boom
      • 1943: Speer's proposal to conscript women was opposed by Hitler
        • Nazis reluctant to abandon  ideological principles
          • Many women remained unemployed during the war despite the lack of work in munitions

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