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
- Declining birth rate
- 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
- Marriage loans - 1933
- 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
- Nazis reluctant to abandon ideological principles
- Aims
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