Nazi Policies Towards Women: A Critical Analysis
Nazi policies towards women aimed to control and manipulate their roles in society, focusing on reducing women in the workforce, promoting Aryan reproduction, emphasizing purity and health, and encouraging Aryan marriage. These policies restricted women's freedoms and autonomy, enforcing strict guidelines on their behavior and appearance, ultimately serving the Nazi regime's ideology of racial purity and societal control.
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Wednesday, 17 July 2024 LESSON TITLE: How successful were Nazi policies towards women? 1 2 What do you already know about how the Nazi s viewed women? Think about the way their lives changed during the Golden Years and what Hitler said about this. Also, how did Hitler use women in his campaign trails? 3 Opposition
How successful were Nazi policies towards women? To evaluate the success of Nazi policies towards women Mastering To explain the methods used by the Nazis to control women Securing To describe the aims of the Nazi party in relation to the women. Developing
Image result for film reel What did the ideal Nazi woman look like? Draw a stick figure in the centre of your page and annotate it as we watch the video to show the ideal Nazi woman. Given 1000 Reich marks as a marriage loan to encourage them to marry HAD to give up work Not wearing trousers No dyed or permed hair Flat shoes Have as many children as possible financial incentives Expected not to work only certain jobs they could do. 1937 duty year to help the economy * No make up * No smoking * Discouraged from slimming
Did you get these points? Did you get these points? Given 1000 Reich marks as a marriage loan to encourage them to marry HAD to give up work Not wearing trousers No make up No dyed or permed hair No smoking Flat shoes Discouraged from slimming Have as many children as possible financial incentives Expected not to work only certain jobs they could do. 1937 duty year to help the economy
Nazi policies towards women focused on four main areas: Reduce the number of women working Promote Aryan women to have as many children as possible Encourage women to keep their bodies pure and healthy Promote Aryan women to marry pure Aryan men. You need to read the Nazi policies on each of these four aims and add notes to your worksheet (slide 6) on how the Nazi s tried to achieve these aims. Choose one of the aims above and then create one of the following A propaganda poster encouraging women to do what you want what can you offer them? A speech explaining why it is important to achieve this aim.
Nazi Policies mentioned Nazi Policies mentioned Stay at home! Don t work! Aryans marry Aryans! Nazi Aims Keep your body pure and healthy! Have lots of Aryan children! Nazi Policies mentioned Nazi Policies mentioned
October 1935: October 1935: Blood Protection Law Blood Protection Law Marriage to Jews , gypsies and black people forbidden for Aryan Germans. 1935 Marriage Law 1935 Marriage Law Certificate of fitness to marry required before a marriage licence was issued. 1938 Marriage Law 1938 Marriage Law Made it easier to divorce from racially inferior partner or if marriage was not going to produce children. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he introduced a Law for the Encouragement of Marriage . The law said that the government would give all newly married couples a loan of 1000 marks (about nine months wages). Ten Commandments for Choice of Spouse (advice issued to women by Nazis) 1. Remember that you are a German. 2. If you are genetically healthy, you should not remain unmarried 3. Keep your body pure. 4. You should keep your mind and spirit pure. 5. As a German, choose only a spouse of the same or Nordic blood. It is the mission of woman to minister in the home to the needs of life from the first to the last moment of man s existence. Her mission in marriage.. Is helper and womanly complement of man this is the right of woman in the New Germany. Gertrude Scholtz- Klink, Head of the Nazi Women s organisation 6. In choosing a spouse, ask about his ancestors. 7. Health is also a preconditions for physical beauty. 8. Marry only for love. 9. Don t look for a playmate but for a companion for marriage. 10.Hope for as many children as possible! Your duty is to produce at least four offspring in order to ensure the future of the national stock.
A German women does not use make-up! A German woman does not smoke! A German woman has a duty to keep herself fit and healthy for having children! Copied from the rule book for the BDM (Nazi youth group for girls) Girls in the Nazi youth group, the BDM, had their heads shaved if they had a perm! Hitler writing in Mein Kampf The most unnatural thing we see on the streets is a German woman, who, ignoring all laws of beauty, has painted her face with Oriental war paint! From a Nazi newspaper In the education of girls in the German state the emphasis must be placed on physical education . The one goal always kept in mind when educating girls is that some day they aim to be mothers.
For outstanding service in the fight against a falling birth rate. Bronze = four children Silver = six children Gold = eight children The only thing women were The only thing women were actively encouraged to do was to have children. actively encouraged to do was to have children. Some local authorities introduced rent, water or Some local authorities introduced rent, water or electricity rebates for large families. electricity rebates for large families. Various other benefits tax allowances for children, paid for by extra taxes on the unmarried; maternity allowances, and concessions on all sorts of things like rail fares, school fees and shopping. Higher taxes for childless couples! Restrictions on contraception/abortion File:Deutsches Reich Mother's Cross of Honour.jpg The Mutterkreuz (The Mother Cross) Taken from www.schoolhistory.co.uk Lebensborn Programme 1939 The Nazi government even set up homes for unmarried mothers. These were called Lebensborn - Spring of Life - and recognised by a white flag with a red dot in the middle. These maternity homes were also brothels. An unmarried woman could go there with the aim of becoming pregnant and would be introduced to racially pure SS men. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he introduced a Law for the Encouragement of Marriage . The law said that the government would give all newly married couples loans of 1000 marks (about nine months wages). When the first child was born, the couple could keep a quarter of the money. On the birth of the second child, they could keep the second quarter. They could keep the third quarter on the birth of their third child, and the entire amount on the birth of a fourth. Donate a child to the Fuhrer!
Take hold of the kettle, broom The Nazis assumed there was a natural distinction between men and women. They stated that men were productive and creative in the world of politics and war whereas women were reproductive, and had their important role in the family home. and pan, Then you ll surely get a man! Shop and office leave alone, Your true life work lies at home. Kinder, Kirche und Kuche The Nazis used this phrase to put across what was expected for women was: This meant, children, church and cooking - what the Nazis believed women should be limited to. Source 3 A German children s rhyme. The slogan "emancipation of women" was invented by Jewish intellectuals. We do not consider it correct for the women to interfere in the work world of the man. Her work lies at home, caring for her family. We consider it natural if these two worlds remain distinct. Adolf Hitler in a speech in 1935 Women in Nazi Germany found themselves being forced to stay at home. Within months of Hitler coming to power, many intelligent women like doctors and civil servants were sacked. Soon women lawyers and teachers were dismissed. By 1939 few women had professional jobs.
Hitler and the Nazi Party paid great attention to women during the elections. Why do you think Hitler felt women were so important to their fight for power?
