Life in nazi germany - policies towards women

• What were women expected to do?

  Stay at home, look after the family and produce children to protect the future aryan race
• What is an Aryan?

  A person of non-jewish European descent with blonde hair and blue eyes that the nazis saw as the superior race
• What were the three K's?

  kinder, kuche, kirche (children, kitchen, church)
• How did the Nazis encourage a high birth rate?

  -Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

  -The Mothers cross

  -Allowing women to volunteer to have a baby with an aryan ss member
• What was the "Law for the Encouragement for Marriage"?

  It gave newlywed couples a loan of 1,000 marks, and allowed them to keep 250 marks for each child they had
• What was the Mother's Cross?

  An award given to women for having a large number of children
• what employment measures were introduced to discourage women from working?

  -The Law for the Reduction of Unemployment

  -Not conscripting women to help in the war effort until 1943
• What was The Law for the Reduction of Unemployment?

  Gave women financial incentives to stay at home
• What was the benefit of female labour?

  it was cheap
• How much did women pay employment rise between 1933 and 1939?

  by 2.4 million
• What was the expected appearance for women?

  -They were expected to dress in traditional German peasant fashions

  -they were not allowed to wear makeup of trousers, dye hair or smoke in public
• Why were women discouraged from staying slim?

  it was thought that thin women had trouble giving birth
• What were traditional German peasant fashions?

  plain peasant costumes, hair in plaits or buns and flat shoes
• How did birth rates grow due to Nazi policies?

  From 970,000 babies In 1933 to 1.4 million in 1939