Question

Explain what role woman had in nazi society?(3 mark)

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 onwards girls were prepared for their future role and were taught appropriate subjects such as cooking and needlework as well as health and beauty.

The guidelines for being an ideal woman in Nazi Germany were as follows:

Women should not work for a living

Women should not wear trousers

Women should not wear makeup

Women should not wear high-heeled shoes

Women should not dye or perm their hair

Women should not go on slimming diets

Answer 2

The role of women in Nazi society followed the rules of a largely patriarchal or male-dominated society. Hitler hailed women as 'the most important citizens of the country' in Germany. But this was true only for Aryan women who bred pure-blooded 'desirable' Aryans. Motherhood was the only goal they were taught to reach for apart from the stereotypical functions of managing the household and being good wives. This was in stark contrast to the role of women on the French Revolution, where women led movements and fought for the right to education and the right to equal wages. They were allowed to form political clubs and schooling was made compulsory for them after the French Revolution.

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