nazi life of women

• Before the Nazis took control in Germany, women had the vote, there were female members in the Reichstag, many had good careers, and they were fashion-conscious, drank, smoked in public, and went out on their own
• o Marriage: 1933 Law for Encouragement of Marriage to increase the falling birth rate. Divorce allowed if you could not have children. Lebensborn introduced – unmarried women would become pregnant by SS men and ‘donate a baby to the Fuhrer
• • o Family: Mothers awarded medals for having large families. Big propaganda campaign to encourage women to have lots of babies
• • Jobs outside the home were discouraged. Women were encouraged to follow the 3Ks – Kinder (Children), Kuche (Kitchen), Kirche (Church). Every job a woman left created a job for a man.
• o Appearance – encouraged to keep clean and healthy and wear their hair in a bun or plaits. Not allowed to wear make-up, trousers or high heels. Couldn’t dye or style their hair and weren’t allowed to diet as seen as bad for child bearing.