Nazi policies towards women.

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Tova Amor                                                                                                     question  2

Nazi policies towards women.

The Weimar republic had given women freedom to do what they wanted , but Hitler believed other wise.

        Hitler believed in a master race, he wanted to build up a strong army and Aryan race- blonde hair and blue eyes a typical German stereotype.

        According to the graph 1st published in 1932 the amount of live births was 933,126 Hitler was taken aback by this information, this statistic was not helping his country to build into the strong and powerful nation he so desperately wanted it to be. So he decided to introduce special rules and rewards.

        He encouraged the women to give up work and focus mainly on having babies and leading a family life. He encouraged them with his famous saying “kinder keuche kirsch” which meant children, cook and church. These were the things Hitler believed should and would make up a stable and “strong” family,and,by increasing those aspects - the German women would have more children  bring them up with strong believes and make them tough enough to establish the master race As far as rewards go Hitler made a reward scheme he introduced medals for mothers, those who had 4 children were awarded a bronze medal, women with 6 children were awarded a silver medal and women with 8 or more children were awarded with a prestigious gold medal. Hitler gave 20 marks to the fifth child in the family this prospect urged women to reach that target; this was just another example of Hitler's manifold of ulterior motives. E.g. the Hitler youth – where he got the children to come to extra curricular activities and then brainwashed them with his ambitions and Ideologies

        In 1936  the Nazis began a breeding experiment called lebensborn , this consisted of fit , healthy , single young Aryan  women were encouraged to visit these lebensborn centres were they could meet with  SS soldiers and in a bid to encourage couples to have more Aryan children.

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        Any married couples who failed to produce children were encouraged to divorce and try again with another mate.

He went even further as to set a anti abortion policy which stated that women had no other option but to keep them, he made it even harder when he shut down all abortion clinics and stopped all contraception from being produced. He did this because he wanted every child conceived to be born so they could help build up the mater race.

        Women were not encouraged to work but to mainly focus all there time and attention on nurturing ...

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