Women in Nazi Germany
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- Women in Nazi Germany
- Mothers and Wifes
- 31 Dec 1932 - Lebensborn Programme
- 1936 amendment - ** men married or not must have at least four children with Aryan women
- members of the ** can only marry Aryan women
- Bund Deutscher Madel (BDM) contained 'racially pure' women and supplied the ** with 'mates'
- BDM had its own hospitals, clinics and homes for children born on the programme
- The children went on to be adopted by 'fit' Germans who could not conceive
- When Germany started taking over land, they would take suitable children from families in the lands they pillaged and gave them to German families
- 14 July 1933 - Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases
- Makes it possible to sterilise those with mental and physical disabilities
- Extended to women with several sexual partners or illegitimate children
- Extended to make and female alcoholics
- Secretely extended to cover racial undesirability
- 18 October 1935
- Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health of the German People
- A fitness-to-marry certificate is required to prove neither couple is genetically or racially 'impure'
- May 1939
- Mother's Cross
- Women awarded medal for having 4 (bronze), 6 (silver) and 8 (gold) children
- Awarded on mothers day which is moved to August on Hitler's mothers birthday
- Mother's Cross
- Organisations
- German Women's Enterprise (Deutsches Frauenwork)
- Organised activities for non-party members
- National Socialist Womanhood (NSF)
- German Women's Enterprise (Deutsches Frauenwork)
- Other
- Mothers had a higher status in Germany then they had before
- Mothers of soldiers who had died or were on active service were given more support
- A mother was expected to eat well, not smoke and get exercise
- The Nazis expected the various groups set up around the country to monitor women
- 31 Dec 1932 - Lebensborn Programme
- Work
- 1 June 1933 Marriage Loan
- Interest free marriage loan to Aryan couples
- Women must promise not to work again whilst as long as their husband has a job
- For every child the have, the loan is reduced by 1/4
- After four children the loan is paid off
- Must be passed as fit to have children
- 1937
- Women can work and still be awarded the marriage loan
- 'Suitable' families were given grants of up to RM100 for each child
- Interest free marriage loan to Aryan couples
- 30 June 1933
- All married women in the civil service with wage-earning husbands are dismissed
- Wages are fixed lower for the rest of women
- 1938
- Divorce grounds now include infertility, having an abortion and refusing to have a baby
- Professions
- Teachers who belonged to the largest female professional group, could only work in primary schools
- Doctors had to work in maternity clinics or as GPs
- Civil servants had to work in a women's section of the government offices in which they worked
- 1936 - Women are excluded from working in law expect in administrative posts
- 1 June 1933 Marriage Loan
- The Second World War
- Mother and Wife
- More childcare was provided
- The NSV had 31000 kindergarten and crèches by the end of 1942
- Work
- Women were urged to join war work even if they were married
- The total number of women in the workforce went up by 2% between 1939 and 1944, it went up 76% between 1913 and 1918
- The Nazi propaganda machine before the war had done its work well
- The Government wanted women to replace male teachers or work on the land
- Germany used 'foreign labour' from the lands they had seized so no need to mobilise women to as great an extent
- Miliary Service
- From October 1940, women could do clerical and support jobs in the army
- By 1941, the Nazis introduced compulsory military service
- By 1944, women were being trained to operate anti-aircraft guns and were sent to work in signal stations lclose to the front
- Mother and Wife
- Mothers and Wifes
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