The Effect of Nazi Rule on Women in Germany
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The Effect of Nazi Rule on Women in Germany
It has been told that before the 20th century the lives of German
women were to e lived around the three K's, kinder (children'), kirche
(church), and kuche (kitchen).This meant that women did not have a
role in politics, social and economical life. Their life was at home.
However this changed during the first 30 years of the 20th century.
Due to the industry growing and the war effort of 1914-1918 meant that
most women had to go to work in factories and offices because the men
were not there and work still needed to be done. The high number in
germen men killed left a post war gap. It has been told that 2million
women who might have married were forced to remain single due to the
circumstances left behind by the war. Most of these women took up jobs
instead and made their lives around work. Attitudes in Germany had
changed. German women became much more independent and were allowed to
think differently. The three K's were no longer lived around.
This however didn't fit into what the Nazi's were thinking. Ever since
the Nazi's started in the 1920's, the Nazi's had barred women from
membership. Women in their eyes were to be seen in the background as a
shadow, they were to be known for their relationships to men, they
didn't matter. Nazism was a very strong male movement physically and
mentally. The Nazi's emphasised on struggle, toughness, and life such
as in the SA, this left no place for what a woman could offer.
Adolf Hitler had the most old fashioned opinion of women. He's new
plans for Germany included nothing advance for women. He stated at a
Nuremberg Party rally in 1934:
"If the man's world is said to be the state, his struggle, his
readiness to devote his powers to the service of the community, then
it may be said that the woman's is a smaller world. For her world is
her husband, her children, her home. The two worlds are not
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the woman's is a smaller world.
- Describes whether a woman ever had the right to hold even the highest position in the party.
- Analyzes how it shows the role of a woman. it shows how they wanted me to be.
- Explains that they looked pure, but also it was seen as a jewish habit.
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- The Impact of the Nazi Regime on the Youth of Germanyexplanatory essayThe Impact of the Nazi Regime on the Youth of Germany Before the Nazis changed the education system, education was free up to the age of 16; although children were allowed to leave form the age of 14. Then children of wealthier families were able to go to university if they desired. The Nazis had to control over private education, as it was likely to bring up lots of conflict, so it had to be left alone. The main changes in the education system didn't occur until 1939. In 1933 the education remained in the hands of the Lands (regional) governments, Hitler who had himself had bad memories from his school days wanted to change this.
In this essay, the author
- Explains the impact of the nazi regime on the youth of germany. education was free up to the age of 16; children of wealthier families could go to university if they desired.
- Explains that the main changes in the education system didn't occur until 1939. hitler wanted to change this. he believed that for a strong country its people needed to be aware of race, their country, and the demands
- Explains that hitler abolished the old system and replaced it with a reichsminister of education, culture and science, bernhard rust. many teachers were right-wing and sympathised with the nazis.
- Explains that the nazi dominance continued as the nationalist socialist teachers alliance (nslb) was set up to replace all other teachers group.
- Explains that the nazi salute and heil's teaching system changed, as did the curriculum. hitler believed that both sexes needed to be taught a lot of pe to increase fitness and strength.
- Explains that racial studies, biology, and the theory of survival of the fittest were taught in the 1930's. hitler believed that children should be able to see differences between themselves and other races.
- Explains that german culture was taught, including great achievements by germans, poetry, and german myths. chemistry and physics were neglected, as the nazis believed that they were not completely necessary.
- Explains that girls and boys were taught separately all the way through their education. boys could be joined to any of the three elitist groups, where girls weren't accepted into any group.
- Explains that the adolf hittelr schools were more prestigious than the napolas and accepted only boys aged 12-18.
- Describes the three ordensburgem, which were military training schools. pupils were accepted only after six years at an adolf hitler school, two and a half years in the state labour service, and full time involvement in party work.
- Explains that gruber founded the hitler youth in 1926 and at the time had lots of other organisations to compete with. hitler appointed schirach as its leader.
- Explains that the pimpfen was for boys aged 6-10, they wore short trousers which resembled the sa, brown shirts and swastika armbands. they were taught military skills at this young age in preparation for the jugenwolk.
- Explains that the boys were taught physical activities to create good soldiers. after 1935, it became compulsory for boys over 18 to do two years military service.
- Explains that hitler's hitler youth was 107,956, and under schirach the number increased rapidly. non-nazi youth organisations were banned in 1936.
- Explains that the hitler youth appealed to all the children due to the uniforms, being able to learn arts and crafts, participating in hiking, sports activities, and singing around a camp fire with their friends.
- Explains that hitler's main aim was to create soldiers and new prominent nazi figures. the youth gained something from this as well; they learned to think for themselves and act on their initiative.
- Explains that germany's high standards of academic excellence were falling. the number of people entering higher education dropped from 127, 580 to 40,986 between 1932 and 1941.
978 wordsRead More - The Impact of Nazism on the Women in the Years 1918-1945analytical essayThe Impact of Nazism on the Women in the Years 1918-1945 Socio-economic factors and the demands of wartime had a greater impact on women in Germany than the Nazi regime. Furthermore, women’s experiences were vicariously influenced through Nazi race or eugenic policy rather than through women’s policy per se. Traditional analysis of German women has concluded that the impacts of Nazism were an increase in birth rate, a return to the domestic sphere and the total suspension of political power. Yet, more recent examinations reveal this conclusion to be mainly based on presuppositions. There was little real impact on the statistics of women in educational institutions, the workforce, nor a significant gain in birth rate.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes the impact of nazism on german women in the years 1918-1945. socio-economic factors and the demands of war had a greater impact on women than the nazi regime.
- Concludes that the nazi gender ideology failed to be systematically implemented and that there was little real impact on the statistics of women in educational institutions and the workforce.
- Explains that the nazis had little influence on women until they came to power in 1933.
- Explains that children would become soldiers and mothers of the next generation, populating areas taken by the nazis for lebensraum.
- Explains that the bolshevik amoral conspiracy luring women into rational thinking, unrestrained individualism, and unhealthy preoccupation with sex. the nazi party centralised areas of german life under nazi leadership.
- Explains how individual interest groups had to be amalgamated into tools of nazi ideology. the regime attempted this by removing sectional loyalties and replacing them with a national consciousness.
- Explains that the frauenschaft was created in 1933 to influence women's lives by indoctrinating women into nazi ideology.
- Analyzes how hitler hoped to instill in ordinary women a desire to have children and return to the domestic sphere. the birth-rate across all european nations was in decline by 1933, and this impacted women's lives.
- Explains that the law for the encouragement of marriage (1933) introduced a marriage loans scheme. paragraph 218 of the civil code forbade abortion and this was rigorously enforced.
- Analyzes how haste argues convincingly that women welcomed this challenge after the uncertain years of weimar, marked in the closing by violence and unemployment.
- Opines that this increase was a product of european wide initiatives designed to increase births, and the personal feeling among german women that their emancipation during the weimar years had been 'a mistake'
- Explains that hitler promised to take 800, 000 women out of the workforce within four years as part of his election campaign in 1932.
- Explains that while the number of women working in industry did fall from 30% to 25% between 1933-1934, female employment went up in other "less depressed" sectors such as consumer goods.
- Explains that the nazi party's desire to remove women from tertiary education institutions was reflected in the law restricting women’s entrance to university.
- Argues that nazi policies had a dramatic incidental impact on factions of women. the law for the avoidance of genetically diseased offspring enforced sterilization of the disabled, ‘feeble of mind’ or, most commonly, jews.
- Explains that the legalization and state regimentation of former sterilization theories indicated a qualitative change. by 1945 360,000 men and women had been sterilized.
- Analyzes how johnson contends the nazi efforts "mostly came to nought" with an estimated 93% of mixed marriages enduring.
- Analyzes how the four year plan of 1936 encouraged women to join the workforce to create a strong economic state, and the marriage loans scheme was abolished.
- Analyzes how the war prevented nazi aims with women from succeeding. the war took men away from home, preventing pregnancy and necessitating a woman’s return to work.
- Explains how the quest for 'pure' marriages led to increased pressure on mixed couples to separate.
- Analyzes stibbe's analysis of nazi policies, stating that many women by 1939 were attempting to become pregnant to remain out of the rearmament process.
- Analyzes how inconsistent policies prevented a new ideology from being formed among women in nazi germany.
- Explains that women were able to develop strategies for political activism within the context of their everyday lives. these methods included feeding and sheltering victims of nazism or the opposition
- Explains that there are cases of outright female political activism in this period. johnson cites the rosenstrasse protests as an example of this activism.
- Describes how göbbels, fearing damage to public opinion, released the jewish partners of the protesting women.
- Opines that the nazi regime failed to instill a new nazi ideology in the lives of women, and in doing so had no dramatic impact on women’s lives.
- Argues that the rhetoric of pre-war nazism was in stark contrast to the policies enacted during the war that destabilised the family unit.
- Explains that the eugenics and race based policies of the nazis had a more profound effect on women's lives.
- Analyzes how hitler attempted to unite and change a nation of people, yet it is clear that women remained thoroughly capable of manipulating the nazi system.
- Cites britannica contributor 1989 germany: weimar republic, chicago university, book number 20, pg 95 burleigh, m. & wipperman, w. 1991 the racial state: germany 1933-1945
- Cites johnson, e. a., pine, l. the impact of the nazi regime on german society and tampke, j.
- Explains that the new hsc online was last accessed 13.3.05, and nowak, k. 1997 coercive sterilization in nazi germany.
- Explains fulbrook's women in nazi germany history outline gcse, which was last accessed 13.3.05.
- Cites stibbe, m. 1993, the nazi policy of expansion into eastern europe; lebensraum literally meaning ‘living room’ for the german people.
- Cites pine, l., the impact of the nazi regime on german society, haste op cit. pg.
- Explains how france's code de la famille increased penalties for contraception and abortion, and award giving to prolific mothers. these loans took the form of coupons for furniture and foodstuffs.
- Explains that fulbrook's women in nazi germany history outline gcse was accessed 13.3.05. jewish women were encouraged to abort after 1934.
- Cites life new hsc online and women in nazi germany spartacus educational. britannica contributor 1989 germany: weimar republic.
- Cites stibbe, haste, fulbrook, ibid., and nowak, k.
- Cites johnson, e. a. 1999 nazi terror: the gestapo, jews, and ordinary germans.
- Describes lebensborn, a program designed by himmler, wherein girls would volunteer to have illegitimate, yet aryan, babies of ss officers. koonz argues that women should share in the polticial respoinsibilty for the atrocities of the nazi regime.
- Explains that christian groups were often in opposition to the policies of hitler.
- Explains the difficulty in reconciling the bible's absolute right and wrong with nazi ideology. the figure is derived from 7,000 jews from war-related industries and 1,700 from mixed marriages.
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In this essay, the author
- Opines that they will look at all of the aspects of their aeon, and examine them.
- Describes the responsibilities of giving money and food to men at that time.
- Opines that much of this was done to be nice, giving money to families, etc.
- Opines that german must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as fast as
- Explains that robert ley worked out that there were 8760 hours in a year.
- Explains that in 1933, 20 000 books were burned by the jewish or communists.
- Opines that starting a family is one which would be difficult to best today.
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In this essay, the author
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- Explains that the nazi's anti-jewish laws forced most jewish men out of employment, and the jewish women stepped in to provide for their family.
- Explains that the nazis took the jewish men and women to concentration camps for two reasons. they thought the women would die quicker without the men.
- Explains that after taking the men to the concentration camps, the nazis began to take the women. they shoot the elderly women in public or send them to gas chambers.
- Explains that men and women were crammed into a train cart of about 100 until they reached their concentration camp.
- Illustrates how a woman named livia bitton-jackson tells her survival story in the holocaust.
- Explains that gender still has an effect on the holocaust survivors. the children of the survivors are called the second generation, and the fathers are not as close with their children because of how they are treated by the nazis.
- Explains that the nazis used men to do labor and the women are considered weaker and not valuable. gender played a major role in deciding if they are going to die or not.
750 wordsRead More - The Influence of the Nazi Party in Germanyanalytical essayThe history that the Nazi’s left behind without a doubt is filled with horrors and tragedies, yet somehow they had consistent majority support and the faith of the German people in there hands. For myself and other historians it is hard to believe the horrors of the holocaust could have happened without the majority support of the German population. In the words of Professor James Glass “The holocaust took collective belief within Germany ”. When considering the legitimacy of the Nazi party, often all we consider is the holocaust- but for Germans there was much more. In just under twenty years the Nazi party was able to gain sole leadership by popular vote in Germany. This tells us that there had to be benefits in “Voting Nazi”.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the holocaust took collective belief within germany. the nazi party gained sole leadership by popular vote in just under twenty years.
- Analyzes how william brustein's book lays out the popularity of the nazi party in a way that makes it clear that the german did support them.
- Analyzes how richard bessel's understanding nazi germany explains how the fast and deceive takeover was possible. hitler was a powerful speaker and good at organizing people.
- Explains that propaganda was a major part of the nazi movements from getting elected to getting german support for jewish execution.
- Explains that joseph goebbels, the man in charge of nazi propaganda, was writing against jews in germany as early as 1925.
- Explains how the nazi party's election results showed how many germans supported the party and for how long. hitler won his election by an unbelievable 26%, while franklin roosevelt won by 17.5% and lost seven states.
951 wordsRead More - World War II: The Duties of Womenanalytical essayWhen people think of women’s role during World War II, they may instantly imagine the famous poster of “Rosie the Riveter,” a female with a bandana around her head and flexing her muscles. This poster certainly symbolizes the roles of women during wartime; however, it represents the women working in the factories while the men were in combat. Consequently, many may unintentionally disregard the abundant number of females serving in the military. Although these females were not permitted to fight in combat, they served in women divisions such as the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). Discussing her service during World War II with interviewer Arthur L. Kelly on Wednesday, July 17, 1985, in Frankfort, Kentucky, Clara Margaret Fort recounted her nearly 25 year career serving with the WAVES. Despite Fort’s inability to remember numerous dates and names throughout the interview, possibly due to her old age, she did discuss the various training she underwent as an enlisted cadre, as well as the different positions she held. Additionally, she discussed the perceptions male militants had of their counterparts, some of which were the causation of gender discrimination. Thus, the interview is an adequate representation of both the roles and discrimination females experienced while serving during the Second World War.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the poster of "rosie the riveter" symbolizes the roles of women during wartime; however, it represents the women working in the factories while the men were in combat.
- Describes how fort was sworn in as an enlisted cadre and sent north for training. she was promoted and placed in charge of fellow female corpsmen and managed a military recreational center in texas.
- Analyzes how fort's memoir illustrates the type of roles and discrimination females experienced while serving during this time period.
- Analyzes how fort felt discriminated against because of her gender, and how the first woman in the navy (joy hancock) to be promoted to captain did not occur until after the war.
- Analyzes how arthur kelly directed most questions to explain discrimination, rather than finding situations in which fort felt no prejudice or lack of respect because of her gender. kelly may have tried to direct fort's thoughts innocently since she is an older woman.
- Opines that the interview provides an adequate representation of the military life experienced by fort during world war ii. however, some interviewees' memory may not be as pristine as in their younger days.
- Concludes that the interview was informative and engaging, shining light on the gender inequalities during world war ii. fort recommended other females to join the service as it helped develop important qualities that she felt are beneficial throughout all stages of life.
1277 wordsRead More - The Status and Position of Jews in Germany in the Years 1933 to 1945explanatory essayThe Status and Position of Jews in Germany in the Years 1933 to 1945 In 1933 Adolf Hitler, leader of the violently anti-Semitic Nazi party, became the Führer of Germany. He then set about removing the Jews, whom he believed to be inferior to Germans, from every aspect of German life. The situation initially worsened because the Jews were harassed by the Nazis. The boycott of Jewish shops (April 1933) and the book burning of books by Jewish authors (1933) made the Jews feel they were not wanted. Professional people such as doctors were removed from there jobs.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that adolf hitler, leader of the violently anti-semitic nazi party, became the führer of germany in 1933. he removed jews from every aspect of german life.
- Opines that the nazis in germany were under constant threat of abuse, terror, and isolation until 1935 when the nuremburg laws were passed.
- Explains that the nuremburg laws stripped jewish people of all their rights as german citizens and forced them to add "israel" to their first names.
- Explains that the nazis were treating jews as animals and thus giving them no status or rights. they felt humiliated and isolated from society.
- Explains that the bullying campaign was to alienate the jews, so as to encourage them to leave. many felt they had no choice.
- Explains that hitler had other plans for the jews that remained in germany. on the 9th november 1938 one thousand jews were murdered, jewish shops destroyed, and synagogues torched.
- Explains that jews were dumped on the poland/germany border and forced into ghettos, where they were worked to death and given barely any food.
- Explains that the nazi propaganda posters made the jews appear sub-human. they couldn't escape from nazis and were stuck in ghettos starving to death.
- Explains that the einsatzgruppen followed the german troops as they invaded towns and shot all the jews they could find. nazi officials devised the final solution at the wannsee conference in 1941.
548 wordsRead More - The Change of Nazis' Treatment of the Jewsexplanatory essayThe Change of Nazis' Treatment of the Jews On the 1st September 1939 Adolf Hitler attacked Poland with his Nazi army. 2 days later Britain and France declared war on Germany heralding the start of the Second World War. For Hitler, the war had become a racial attack on the Jews in Europe. His plan was to get rid of the Jews in Poland and create more "Living Space" for his Aryan race, the Germans that Hitler found suitable for his Reich.
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how he became a racial attack on jews in europe. his plan was to get rid of jews.
- Opines that it was hard for the ss to target the 3 300 000 jews in poland.
- Explains that the purpose of the separation of jews and keeping them in one place was to separate them.
- Explains that it made it easy for them to work for the nazis.
- Opines that the nazis made it impossible for them to ship them all the way to south.
- Describes the tasks he had set out to do to make living space for his aryan race.
- Opines that it was too slow to be used for the murder of every jew in europe.
- Explains that it was the biggest of its kind ever and opened in 1942.
- Narrates how the germans did their best as the war drew to an end.
1286 wordsRead More - Nazis' Use of Persecution and Power of the SS to Create a Police State in 1930's
In this essay, the author
- Explains the nazis' use of persecution and power of the ss to create a police state in 1930's germany was ruled completely by the state from 1933 to 1945.
- Explains that the gestapo and ss were used to enforce law and order through violence and fear.
- Explains how the enbling law gave the nazi party the power they needed to bring their ideas into action. when the parties voted themselves out of the reichstag, they lost any power and what emerged from the law was a police state.
- Explains that the gestapo and the ss were convinced nazis who were in total agreement with hitler, which is why the nuremburg laws were accepted.
- Explains how the jews were imprisoned in a police station and taken to concentration camps. the police state caused fear and people had no trust in their friends.
- Explains that the german population had very little chance in what happened. by november 1933 the nazi party were the only available party in the reichstag whom they could vote for.
- Explains that many germans were content with hitler's persecution because they feared what would happen if they didn't support him. the german population had very little idea of what happened outside the country.
- Opines that it was difficult to stop the police state because they have all the power.
483 wordsRead More - The Change of Nazis' Treatment of the Jews From 1939-45analytical essayThe Change of Nazis' Treatment of the Jews From 1939-45 Hitler and the Nazi party managed to kill six million Jews throughout Europe by the end of 1945. This systematic process of killing between the years 1939 and 1945 is known as the holocaust. There were five key issues that led to the Wansee conference that took place in 1942 before the Nazi's decided upon the "final solution to the Jewish problem. These events included the outbreak of World War II, Hitler's personal agenda against the Jewish population, the rise and power of the SS and the failures of other solutions put forward to "get rid" of the Jewish problem.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that hitler and the nazi party managed to kill six million jews throughout europe by the end of 1945, known as the holocaust.
- Explains that the outbreak of world war ii, hitler's personal agenda against the jewish population, the rise and power of the ss and the failures of other solutions put forward to "get rid"
- Explains that germany did not care what other nations thought of anti-semitic activities during wartime. with the attention of the world focused on the war, the nazis could eliminate the jews in the background.
- Explains how the nazis conquered more and more lands and faced problems with the three million jews they acquired through the invasion of poland.
- Explains that the start of the war had the impact of further isolating an already isolated race in europe. there were other reasons for the change in treatment towards the jews after 1939.
- Explains that the ss were prone to using violence to achieve their aims as seen before the nazi's came to power.
- Explains that the ss were keen on following hitler's orders and getting rid of the jews because they were able to steal from them valuable possessions.
- Explains that the ss were interested in making personal gain through the abuse of the civil rights of jews.
- Explains that the "madagascar" plan, created in the summer of 1940, was the brainchild of reynhard heydrich and the german foreign office.
- Explains that the ss's plan was scrapped, as it would prove both impractical and costly. the sheer amount of ships needed to deport all the jews was colossus.
- Describes the harsh conditions in the reich ghettos, where jews were isolated from the rest of the world and guards were posted to make sure there were no escapees.
- Describes the ghettos as riddled with poverty and overcrowding.
- Analyzes how the quote illustrates the depravity that the nazi's committed upon the jews.
- Describes how the einsatzgruppen followed and exterminated everyone they deemed "undesirable". the method used involved making the jews dig their own graves, then lining them up and shooting them into the ground.
- Explains that the germans used "gassing" to kill mentally and physically handicapped people during the early 1930's.
- Explains that the method was used to kill over 145,000 jews over a fifteen-month period from carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Analyzes how hitler's personal grudge against the jews fuelled the move towards the final solution. hitler mentioned his plans for the jewish population many years before he came to power.
- Analyzes how hitler's plans of the imminent invasion of russia included mention of his hatred towards communism as he thought their leaders were jewish (he also was against their political ideas).
- Opines that hitler and the nazi people could not achieve all this without the support of the german people.
- Explains that propaganda was a vital tool used by the nazi party to influence the german public. lies and fake statistics were force fed to the nation.
- Explains that by 1941, there were huge "stock piles" of jews still in the ghettos and camps all over europe.
- Explains that the wansee conference marked the devising of a plan that would culminate in the mass extermination of the jews.
- Explains how the first camps were built in poland, serving as large gas chambers, where jews were told to undress and enter, expecting to be shower.
- Explains that the wansee conference was the biggest turning point in the change of policy. the nazis tried many different methods before settling on the final solution.
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