Women and the Nazis
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- Women and the Nazis
- Women's role was to have as many children as possible
- "Set the husband free": if a woman already had lots of children she should let her husband go an get other women pregnant
- Three Ks: Kinder, Kircher and Kuche - children, church and cooking
- "Set the husband free": if a woman already had lots of children she should let her husband go an get other women pregnant
- Within months of Hitler coming into power, many female doctors, teachers, lawyers and judges were sacked
- Men could take over these jobs so there would be reduce in unemployment figures
- Getting qualifications and a professional job was discouraged
- Women were banned from jury service as they were too emotional
- Smoking, make-up, trousers, high-heels and dyeing hair was seen as unladylike
- Loans
- Newly married couples were given loans equivalent to a year's wages to encourage them to have children
- On the birth of their first child they could keep a quarter of the loan and then another 1/4 for the second child and so on until they had 4 children
- Newly married couples were given loans equivalent to a year's wages to encourage them to have children
- Nazis banned contraception and abortions
- They even discourages slimming as it was believed that being slim was not good for getting pregnant
- The Motherhood Medal was awarded to women who had the most children
- Women who had 8 children were given the Gold Cross
- These awards were given out on the 12th August - Hitler's mother's birthday
- Women who had 8 children were given the Gold Cross
- Lebensborn: an ** initiated state- supported, registered association in Nazi Germany set up in 1935
- It aimed to raise the birth rate of "Aryan" children via extramarital relations of people classified as being racially pure
- Some called them maternity homes whilst others called them brothels
- Unmarried women would go there with the intention of getting pregnant by ** soldiers
- Children would be adopted by likewise racially pure and healthy parents particularly ** members and their families once born by anonymous unmarried women
- Women's role was to have as many children as possible
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