expected to stay at home, look after the family and produce children of the Aryan race - and that their life should also resolve around the 3 K's
Kinder (children)
Kirche (church)
Kuche (kitchen)
Nazi polices towards marriage + family
(Hitler wanted a high birth rate to grow the Aryan population)
Law for the Enforcement of Marriage loaned newlywed couples 1,000 marks and kept 250 marks for every child they had together
mothers were given the Mother's Cross for the more children they had
women could volunteer to have a baby with an Aryan member of the SS
Nazi polices towards employment of women
law for the reduction of unemployment - women payed to stay at home and raise children under the nazi regime
however, as the German economy grew women were in the workplace and 2.4 million women were employed
How Hitler increased employment
public works - building hospitals, schools, buildings (Olympic stadium), this created work for 80,000 men
Rearmament - increasing the army (as well as manufacturing military weapons) between 1933 and 1938, this created millions of jobs
National Labour service - all young men spent 6 months in the NLS and were then conscripted into the army
invisible employment
in 1939 Germany claimed to have full employment but many people were not included in these statistics:
1.4 million men joined the army
jews were sacked (their jobs given to non-jews)
women gave up jobs for men
autarky
the policy of autarky attempted to make Germany self-sufficient so that Germany would not have to trade internationally. In 1937 Goring was made Economics Minister and tried to make Germany self-sufficient in 4 years - this was unsuccessful
the impact of Nazis economic policies: big businesses
By 1937 Nazis controlled 70% of production, but rearmament boosted profits of big weapon companies so there incomes rose rapidly
the impact of Nazis economic policies: small businesses
rules on small businesses were tightened, resulting in 20% of them closing
the impact of Nazis economic policies: farmers
farmers benefitted under the nazis - agricultural prices had increased by 20%, and agricultural wages rose more quickly than those in industry
