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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Nazi policies towards women

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Overview

The Nazi ideal of woman as wife and mother, the three Ks, the birth rate, women judged unfit, marriage loans of 1933, the Mother's Cross, dismissals from the professions, limits on girls' education, expected appearance and behaviour, and the return of women to work after 1937.

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What place did the Nazis believe a woman should occupy?

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What were the three Ks the Nazis set out for women?

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How were women who did not fit the Nazi ideal regarded?

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  1. 1

    What place did the Nazis believe a woman should occupy?

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    Wife and mother in the home, raising children for the nation rather than competing with men for work.

  2. 2

    What were the three Ks the Nazis set out for women?

    Model answer

    Kinder, Küche, Kirche — children, kitchen and church.

  3. 3

    Why were the Nazis so anxious about the birth rate?

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    It had fallen sharply in the 1920s, and they wanted far more racially pure Germans to fill the army and settle new land.

  4. 4

    How were women who did not fit the Nazi ideal regarded?

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    Women judged racially unfit or hereditarily ill were discouraged or prevented from having children altogether.

  5. 5

    What did the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage of 1933 offer?

    Model answer

    An interest-free loan to newly married couples, a quarter of which was cancelled for each child they had, up to four.

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    What was the Mother's Cross?

    Model answer

    A medal awarded for large families: bronze for four children, silver for six and gold for eight.

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