Role of women is nazi germany?

Question

where women victims or perpetrators of Nazism?

Answer 1

Role of Women in Nazi Germany

Women in Nazi Germany were to have a very specific role. Hitler was very clear about this. This role was that they should be good mothers bringing up children at home while their husbands worked. Outside of certain specialist fields, Hitler saw no reason why a woman should work. Education taught girls from the earliest of years that this was the lifestyle they should have.

From their earliest years, girls were taught in their schools that all good German women married at a young age to a proper German and that the wife’s task was to keep a decent home for her working husband and to have children.

One of the earliest laws passed by Hitler once he came to power in 1933, was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage. This law stated that all newly married couples would get a government loan of 1000 marks which was about 9 months average income. 800,000 newly weds took up this offer. This loan was not to be simply paid back. The birth of one child meant that 25% of the loan did not have to be paid back. Two children meant that 50% of the loan need not be paid back. Four children meant that the entire loan was cleared.

The aim of the law was very simple - to encourage newly weds to have as many children as they could. There was also a more long term and sinister aspect to this : as Germany grew she would need more soldiers and mothers; hence a booming population was needed with young boys being groomed into being soldiers and young girls being groomed into being young mothers. If "lebensraum" was to be carried out, Hitler needed the population to fill the spaces gained in the eastern Europe. This attitude of deliberately boosting your nation's population was finding favour in western Europe and not just in Nazi Germany. France, in particular, feared that its population was falling too quickly and banned abortions and contraception.

Such was the desire to increase the German population that in 1943, a law was discussed among Nazi leaders that all women - married or single - should have 4 children and that the fathers of these children had to be "racially pure". Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was particularly keen on this idea. If a family already had four children, the father from that family had to be released to father more children outside of his marriage. This law never came into being as even the Nazi leaders realised that this law would create social anarchy.

Women were not expected to work in Nazi Germany . In Weimar Germany there had been 100,000 female teachers, 3000 female doctors and 13,000 female musicians. Within months of Hitler coming to power, many female doctors and civil servants were sacked. This was followed by female teachers and lawyers. By the start of the Second World War, very few German women were in fulltime work. However, such was the skills shortage in Germany, that in 1937 a law was passed in 1937 which meant women had to do a "Duty Year". This meant that they could work 'patriotically' in a factory etc. to help the Nazi's "Economic Miracle". The marriage loan was also abolished in this year.

As housewives and mothers, their lives were controlled. Women were not expected to wear make-up or trousers. The dyeing of hair was not allowed nor were perms. Only flat shoes were expected to be worn. Women were discouraged from slimming as this was considered bad for child birth. Women were encouraged to have a well built figure as slim women, so it was taught, would have problems in pregnancy…….Women were also discouraged from smoking - not because it was linked to problems with pregnancies - but because it was considered non-German to do so.

August 12th had been the birthday of Hitler’s mother. On this day each year, the Motherhood Cross was awarded to women who had given birth to the largest number of children. The gold cross went to women who had produced 8 children; silver was for 6 children and bronze was for 4 children

In Nazi Germany it was not considered a social problem if an unmarried woman had a child. In fact it was encouraged. The Nazis established Lebensborn’s which were buildings where selected unmarried women could go to get pregnant by a "racially pure" SS man. These were not buildings that were hidden away in some back street. The government openly publicised them and they had a white flag with a red dot in the middle to identify them to the public.

A common rhyme for women then was:

"Take hold of kettle, broom and pan,
Then you’ll surely get a man!
Shop and office leave alone, Your true life work lies at home

Answer 2

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the nazi philosaphy considered women'role as good house wife and an instrument to give birth and brought up new borns

they are not expected to do hard or intellectual works
while the allies used their women to do the home and industrial works (sometimes in war field too) the nazi philosaphy was againest that

the industrial slow down of Germany during war time is mainly becouse of this reason(all capable male are at battle field)

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Answer 3

Neither victim, nor perpetrator really. Nazi views of women was basically an enforced status quo. Women were not going to gain anything from it, but they weren't really going to lose out either. Any loss of rights that women would have experienced during those times were likely the result of other factors, not specifically aimed at women.

Answer 4

i didn't read the article because I just finished an article about the training process for Nazi women who worked in the concentratration camps. One of those was Ilse Koch. All the concentration camps had "matrons" who worked right along side the SS and the regular guards. No gender was exempt from the atrocities of the Nazi regimen. Why does it matter? Because it was those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it. I think our world can do without another holocaust.

Answer 5

Ja - - - women were expected to be good faithful fruitful and they did their duty but they played a bigger role in the scheme of things then one might imagine. First it should be noted that when women adopted a more assertive 'masculine' role, Hitker did not flinch. One of Germany's most important film makers was a woman, Hitler made it no secret that he respected the views & opinions of Magda Goebbels more than her husband Josef the Propaganda Minister, and Hitler encouraged the activties of Hanna Reitch (mispeled) who was a pilot. And Hitler treasured the work of his female secretaries so despite the Nazi's call for women to bear children and be good housewives, women were still able to play a role in society outside the home.

That said here is a blurb that speaks well and can lead you to a book & documentary.

"Nazi Women by Cate Haste
Channel 4 Books £14.99 stg

'Nazi Women' is a fascinating, if horrifying, read that looks at the personal relationships which influenced Adolf Hitler, as well as painting a broader picture of women's lives in Third Reich Germany. Haste takes a complete look at Hitler's personal relationships with women - from his early home life to his obsession with his niece Geli; his admiration for Propaganda Minister's wife, Magda Goebbels, dubbed the "First Lady of the Third Reich"; and his enduring relationship with Eva Braun. Interestingly, three of the women who had relationships with Hitler attempted suicide: Geli, actress Renate Muller and Eva Braun, who took her own life in the Berlin bunker rather than live without Der Fuhrer.

The book contrasts the private Hitler with his public views on the fairer sex, exposing the hypocrisy of the Nazi position on women. Despite its gender specific title, 'Nazi Women' also explores everyday life in Hitler's Germany, analysing topics such as his racial purity policy.

AdvertisementA companion to the Channel 4 documentaries 'Hitler's Women', and 'Hitler's Brides', 'Nazi Women' also gives voice to German women from all walks of life who remember life in the Third Reich. Complete with a full bibliography, 'Nazi Women' is a fantastic resource for the student as well as being of interest to the general reader. Excellent.

Joanne Ahern "



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Answer 6

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Your asking for a great deal on a hugely complex issue. I can understand why finding fair and not one sided opinions is difficult. German Women Labour Front under Gertrud Scholtz-Klinik The seven million women under control of Scholtz-Klinik were prepared for their role relating too their childbearing capacity and placement for their future as mothers of the Reich. Working women were encouraged to attend classes in domestic science and childcare in their spare time. The Government also issued special laws that restricted their hours in the factories and heavy work. By 1937 , at a time of limited labor, the ideology of the Nazi government "found itself in a head on collision with the process of social and economic change"(Mason 1976) In 1939 12.7 million women were in employment and comprised 37% of the workforce. In 1937 virtually unknown and over the objections of both the Reichnfuhrer and Reichmarshal Hitler allow women to gain high post in civil service-which mainly dealt with welfare. The result, of course, being women holding superior positions to men an effectively being their boss. The Hitler government attempted to ease women out of industry and commerce by making motherhood an attractive financial proposition. The law of reducing employment, of June 1st 1933 laid the ground work for tax free gifts and interest free loans to newly wed couples provided the woman withdraw from the workplace. These programs were highly effective in returning women to motherhood, and while they were more than less bribes, women were happy with the circumstances ""The significant increase in the birth rate between 1933-1939-live births 933,129 to 1,275,212 were usually attributed to the Fuhrer's financial inducements, although discouragement of birth control and somewhat lax social norms for teenagers could also be attributable as well. An argument can be made that the increased birth rate could also be due to the younger generation of men overlapping the declination of the first world war and entering manhood"". All I could come up with on the fly. The last argument I presented I have never really thought about before. I doubled quoted it as it seems a winnable debate from either side-and an interesting one. If you need anymore let me know. sp

Answer 7

They could be described as victims by some.
Their role was to provide more children for the "master race" and were given medals and honours for all the new born children

Answer 8

The women were not the victims. They were expected to stay at home and have as many children as they could bear. Men could have extramarital affairs to have other children too.

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