Women in Nazi Germany - The verdict on women contribution in Nazi Germany.

University Degree Historical and Philosophical studies

Kristín Jóna Bjarnadóttir

HIS2036

Women in Nazi Germany:

The verdict on women contribution in Nazi Germany

A Plan of Investigation:

To what extent where Women victims in Nazi Germany?

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany’s last Kaiser, defined the role for women as “Kirche, Küche, Kinder” , this came true during Nazi era. Hitler, an anti-feminist, was very clear about their role as women, he thought wanted Germany to become more powerful, therefore the population had to increase for the country to succeed in having economic and military power. Women were, therefore, forced to out of the labour force and have children. Hitler reduced women's social activity to a purely biological purpose. It was their duty to assure the future of the German race. This investigation will cover whether women of Germany were victims of the Nazi organization, with sources of a non-bias educational site and an article of a woman’s bias opinions on how women were also culprits of WWII. An analysis should indicate whether or not women were the victims.

B Summary of Evidence:

Hitler was very clear about their role as women, he wanted Germany to become more powerful, therefore the population had to increase for the country to succeed in having economic and military power.
Women were then forced to out of the work force, to bear the children of the Nazis.
Hitler reduced women's social activity to a purely reproductive purpose. It was their duty to assure the future of the German race.
Their lives were controlled as housewives and mothers. Women were told how to act, who to web, what to do and how their physical appearance should be.
In Nazi Germany, it was not considered a social problem if an unmarried woman had a child. In fact, it was encouraged. The Nazis established Lebensborns, which were buildings where selected unmarried women could go to get pregnant by a “racially pure” SS man.
Within months of Hitler coming to power, many female doctors and civil servants were dismissed.
But Hitler did, however, allow few women to join the Nazi SS Corps, they filed in as nurses, secretaries, guards.
In 1942, the SS Women's Corps was established as a personal project of the SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler
They were seen as partners to the Nazi regime.
They had been active in the League of German Girls from early childhood and held positions of leadership there. These women contributed to the duty at all sites of Nazi mass murder, as SS guards, physicians and nurses, as telephone, telegraph or radio operators trained in the SS Women's Corps, as drivers, or as typists, secretaries and office assistants employed by the SS.
It is additionally apparent that SS Women's Corps members and female SS employees supported and upheld the Nazi regime and were increasingly rewarded.

C Evaluation of Sources:

The Role of Women in Nazi Germany

This website is useful to find out how women were degraded by the Nazi regime. It has an un-bias view, as an educational website, of the women rights and respect women lost. They were fired from their occupations, to provide work the unemployed men, and made into the traditional women, stay-at-home mother. Their sole purpose was to produce the future of Nazi Germany, the prefect race. This website is useful, for it give information on how the Nazi system oppressed women, reduced them to mere objects who were therefore ...