Question

Explain the role and status of women in Nazi society compare their role and status with that of French women on the eve of the French Revolution

Answer 1

Nazi women, far fewer in number than their male counterparts in the Third Reich, still played a critical role in the lead-up to and beginning of the Second World War. After all, Adolf Hitler had very clear ideas about the role of women in the Third Reich. 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 on wards girls were prepared for their future role and were taught appropriate subjects such as cooking and needlework as well as health and beauty.