Women in Nazi Germany

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  • Women in Nazi Germany
    • Jobs
      • Nazis wanted them to stay at home
      • Thought that men were the main breadwinners
      • Women in work were considered as taking a mans job
      • Disapproved of women in medicine and law
    • Appearance
      • look natural
      • No makeup
      • Traditional clothing
      • Hair tied up
      • Aryan
    • Marriage and Family
      • Birth rate should increase
      • They should devote their lives to feeding and rearing their family
      • They should be good at needlework and cookery
    • Policies towards Women
      • Marriage and family
        • Lebensborn
          • Gave financial support for women married to ** members. Then went on to encourage women to breed with ** members to make more Aryans
        • The Mothers Cross
          • Bronze award for 4 or 5 children, silver for 6 or 7, and gold for 8. Hitler Youth ordered to salute to wearers of the gold medal
        • Law to encourage  Marriage
          • Loans worth up to 1000 marks (8 months wages) were provided to encourage young people to marry. For each child, 25% of the loan was payed off. (4 kids payed off the loan completely)
        • Divorce Laws
          • If a wife would'nt or could'nt have children, the husband could divorce her
      • Employment
        • Once in power, the Nazis tried to reduce the amount of women in work
        • Propaganda
          • Posters about happy houswives and speeches encouraged women to leave work
        • Laws
          • In 1933, Women were banned from professional posts such as teachers, doctors and civil servants
          • From 1936, no woman could be judge, lawyer or jury
          • Girls were taught in school about motherhood
          • In 1937, girl grammar schools were abolished
      • Reich woman's leader
        • Gertrud Scholtz Klink appointed to oversee all policies regarding women
        • She insisted that all women's organisations to join the German Women's Enterprize
    • How effective were the Policies
      • Some women were persuaded to accept policies
      • Many didnt accept the Nazi views and thought that they degraded women

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