Draw a spider diagram of what life was like for women in Nazi Germany.
We will be looking at these 5 areas:
•Education
•Marriage
•Employment
•Breeding Programme
•Physical Constraints
EDUCATION
•Girls from the age of ten joined the Jungmadel (Hitler Youth).
•From fourteen they entered the Bund Deutscher Madel (German Girls' League).
•They were taught their role was as a good wife and mother and their place was in the home.- the 3 Ks: kinder, kuche, kirche (Children, Cooking, Church)
MARRIAGE
•1933; Law for the Encouragement of Marriage which gave newly weds a government loan of 1000 marks. This encouraged them to have children.
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•1934; 10 commandments for choice of spouse which encouraged people fitting the German Ideal to marry and keep race pure.
EMPLOYMENT
Women taken out of the labour market.
1934: Women dismissed from the professions
1936: Women could not be judges or sit on jury
Women were expected to be home-makers, wives and mothers.
BREEDING PROGRAM
•Women had biological purpose
•Medals for women who had more than 4 children.
•Encouraged unmarried women to have children via Lebensborn's where women pregnant by racially pure SS officers.
•Banned contraception and abortion.
•Sterilized racially 'unpure‘.
•Girls from the age of ten joined the Jungmadel (Hitler Youth).
•From fourteen they entered the Bund Deutscher Madel (German Girls' League).
•They were taught their role was as a good wife and mother and their place was in the home.- the 3 Ks: kinder, kuche, kirche (Children, Cooking, Church)
MARRIAGE
•1933; Law for the Encouragement of Marriage which gave newly weds a government loan of 1000 marks. This encouraged them to have children.
•
•1934; 10 commandments for choice of spouse which encouraged people fitting the German Ideal to marry and keep race pure.
EMPLOYMENT
Women taken out of the labour market.
1934: Women dismissed from the professions
1936: Women could not be judges or sit on jury
Women were expected to be home-makers, wives and mothers.
BREEDING PROGRAM
•Women had biological purpose
•Medals for women who had more than 4 children.
•Encouraged unmarried women to have children via Lebensborn's where women pregnant by racially pure SS officers.
•Banned contraception and abortion.
•Sterilized racially 'unpure‘.