Women in Nazi Germany

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Women in Nazi Germany
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Women in Nazi Germany

• Aims
• Identify the role of women in Nazi Germany.
• Examine how women were encouraged to have large
  families

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Nazi Policy

• It was official Nazi policy to encourage
• more births and prevent racial mixing.
• Why?
• The Nazis were scared that the German population
  was growing too slowly and other countries such
  as Poland and Russia were growing faster.
• The German people were becoming racially impure
  due to intermarriage with inferior groups like
  the Jews.

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• The female bird preens herself
• for her mate and hatches her
• eggs for him. Women have the
• same task.
• Joseph Goebbels

Equal rights for women means they are valued
for the job nature has given them. Adolf
Hitler
German women wish in the main to be wives and
mothers, They do not wish to be comrades.
They have no longing for the office. A cosy
home, a loved husband and a multitude of happy
children are closer to their hearts. Nazi
Party Leaflet
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How Did the Nazis Encourage More Births?

• Women were forced out of jobs, encouraged to get
  married and have large families.
• Interest free loans were given to couples to
  encourage marriage.
• It was difficult to get access to birth control
  and there were strict laws against abortions.
• The most productive mothers were awarded special
  medals each year at a ceremony on the birthday of
  Hitlers mother.
• Lebensborn homes were set up unmarried women
  could stay there and get pregnant by a racially
  pure SS soldier.
• The three Ks Kinder, Kirche and Kuche or
  Children, Church and Cooking summed up a womens
  role.

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Opposition in Nazi Germany

• Aims
• Identify different groups who had the potential
  to oppose Hitler.
• Examine why it was difficult to oppose Nazi rule