Question

critically explain the nazi policy towards women

Answer 1

The conditions of women during nazi period are :
There was 25 full policies but Nazi policies towards women generally fell under their slogan or motto "Kinder, Kirche and Kuche" to clarify where women would spend their time

1933 - Law for the Encouragement of Marriage (newly married couples given loan of 1000 marks - for each child produced they got to keep 250 marks and did not have to repay)

Further encouragement for having children included tax relief etc

Women who had over eight children were given the Motherhood Cross (handed out symbolically on Hitler's mother's birthday)

Abortion outlawed and contraceptives hard to come by

Young women had to join the BDM which taught them how to be perfect housewives and child producers

Nazi's established 'Lebensborn' during the war - this was where unmarried women could go to meet racially pure SS men to become pregnant

Women considered 'racially undesirable' were sterilized (by 1934 - 28 000)

Laws were introduced to remove women from civil service. They were gradually barred from being doctors, lawyers, judges or any role with power or politics. Attempted to limit university placings.

Petty restrictions to encourage homemaking / childbearing included: banning of make-up and wearing of trousers, hair put in plaits/bun not dyed/permed, slimming was discouraged and women were encouraged to develop child-bearing hips.


But just so you know interesting statistics on marriage and birth rates show that these policies were not hugely successful especially after 1939. The reasons for most of these policies were to build up the German master race by having women produce happy healthy Nazi Aryan babies. There was also Hitler's misogynistic belief that women were the inferior sex.

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