Nazi policies towards women

• What were women expected to do according to Nazi views?


  Stay at home, look after the family, and produce children
• What did Hitler believe women's lives should revolve around?


  The three 'Ks': Kinder, Küche, and Kirche
• What was the purpose of the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage?


  To give newlywed couples a loan of 1,000 marks
• How much money could couples keep for each child they had under the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage?


  250 marks for each child
• What award was given to women who had large numbers of children?

  The Mother’s Cross
• What was one way women could contribute to the Aryan race according to Nazi policies?


  Volunteering to have a baby for an Aryan member of the SS
• What law discouraged women from working by providing financial incentives to stay at home?

  The Law for the Reduction of Unemployment
• When were women conscripted to help in the war effort?

  Not until 1943
• What was the trend in female employment between 1933 and 1939?


  The number of women in employment rose by 2.4 million
• Why was female labor needed in the workplace during the Nazi regime?


  Because the German economy was growing
• What type of fashion were women expected to emulate according to Nazi ideals?


  Traditional German peasant fashions
• What were women discouraged from doing regarding their appearance?

  Wearing make-up, trousers, dyeing their hair, or smoking in public
• Why were women discouraged from staying slim according to Nazi beliefs?


  Because it was thought that thin women had trouble giving birth