women

• What were the Nazi views on women?

  -believed it was a women's role to stay at home and look after her children

  -lives should revolve around "children, kitchen and church"

  -equally as important as men but have a different role in society
• what were the main aims of Nazi policies on women?


  -not working

  -being housewives

  -to have many children and create a "master" German race
• how did Nazis encourage women to marry?


  -encouraged women to marry Nazis

  -introduced law for marriage in 1933

  -loaned newly weds 1000 marks which they got to keep a quarter of for each of their first four children
• How did the Nazis encourage women to have children?


  -rewards given to women who had large families

  -mothers cross awarded- bronze for 4 of 5 children, silver for 6-7 children and gold for 8 or more

  -Lebensborn scheme encouraged women to have child with member of ss

  -family allowances made available to people on low incomes

  -contraception and abortions banned
• what were Nazi polices on work?


  -working was discouraged because it might hinder producing children

  -many women with careers were sacked
• what were Nazi polices on sterilisation?


  -Nazis law of prevention of diseased offspring

  -allowed forcible sterilisation of women with a history of mental illness, health issues etc
• what were Nazi policies on behaviour?


  -many women banned from smoking in cities

  -wearing trousers frowned upon

  -slimming was discouraged as it might make getting pregnant harder
• how did world war 2 change the role of women in Nazi Germany?


  -women needed to fill in industry jobs that men couldn't

  -by 1945 women made up 60 percent of workforce

  -by 1943 all women between 17 and 45 had to register to work
• what were the impacts of these policies?


  -birth rate increased from 0.9 million to 1.4 million in 6 years

  -thousands of women stopped from chosen career path