Nazi views on women and the family

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Audrey Anim

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  • The Nazis believed that women’s role was the traditional one of mother and housewife, while the man provided for the family.
  • They should stay at home and raise a family rather than professions such as medicine or the law.
  • They should also adopt a natural appearance with simple plaited hair, long skirts and no make-up.
  • In 1934, the Nazis appointed a Reich Women’s leader, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, who merged all existing women’s organisations into the German Women’s Enterprise (DFW). This had 6 million members by 1939.
  • By 1939, 1.7 million women had attended DFW courses on childcare, cooking and sewing.