describe the views of the hitler against children and motherhood in germany
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Women in Nazi Germany had a very specific role. Hitler was very clear about this. According to him women were to be the homemakers of society, cooking, cleaning, keeping house and making themselves healthy and beautiful for their racially pure husbands with whom they would produce numerous children.
From school age girls were taught in their schools that all German women should get married at a young age to a proper German and that the wife’s task was to keep a decent home for her working husband and to have children.
The guidelines for being an ideal woman in Nazi Germany were as follows:
Hitler once he came to power in 1933, passed the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage. This law stated that all newly married couples would get a government loan of 1000 marks which was about 9 months average income. This loan was not to be simply paid back. The birth of one child meant that 25% of the loan did not have to be paid back. Two children meant that 50% of the loan need not be paid back. Four children meant that the entire loan was cleared.The aim was to have a booming population which would encourage young boys into being soldiers and young girls being groomed into being young mothers.
Women were not expected to wear make-up or trousers. The dyeing of hair nor were perms allowed. Only flat shoes were expected to be worn. Women were discouraged from slimming as this was considered bad for child birth.They were also discouraged from smoking – not because it was linked to problems with pregnancies – but because it was considered non-German to do so.
Women were not expected to work in Nazi Germany . Within months of Hitler coming to power, many female doctors and civil servants , female teachers and lawyers were sacked