Women in Nazi Germany
- Created by: Aidan Bradley
- Created on: 04-10-17 20:15
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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
- Lebensborn
- 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
- Marriage and family
- How effective were the Policies
- Some women were persuaded to accept policies
- Many didnt accept the Nazi views and thought that they degraded women
- Jobs
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