HOW NAZIS CHANGED THE LIVES OF WOMEN

• How the Nazis changed the lives of women

  1933-39
• Women lost lots of the freedoms they had gained in the Weimar period
• Women were expected to stay at home and be housewives and mothers
• Many women were forced to leave their jobs
• The role of women can be summed up in the 3Ks

  • Kinder - children
  • Kuche - cooking
  • Kirche - church
• The Nazis encouraged women to have large families to increase the birth rate and to ensure the future of the master race
• Medals were awarded for women who had large numbers of children
• People were encouraged to get married and have children


  1. Offered marriage loans

  2. Loan reduced each time a child was born
• Women were discouraged from wearing make-up, smoking and dieting
• Lebensborns were set up where women could 'donate' a baby to the Führer by becoming pregnant by racially pure SS men