The Holocaust is one the most widely examined events in modern history. Adolf Hitler was a political/war theorist. It is easy to stop the examination of this time in history at the onslaught of hearing about death camps, and infirmaries consumed with human remains. However, we will move passed this, to examine Hitler's views of women, actions toward women, and their place within Nazi Germany. Our further examination will start with a look at Hitler's overall views of and programs for German women. Next, we will explore women in regards to power and what that power meant to the whole of German society. After which, we will look at the German women and her place within the workforce. Forging head, we will look at the treatment of lesbians under Hitler's rule. Finally, we will look at Jewish women's actions toward Hitler and Nazism. In the end we will have a comprehensive understanding of the woman's role in Nazi occupied Germany and how Jewish women reacted to the induction of Nazism.
Hitler's overall plain for Europe was to push outward the country lines of Germany, thus occupying Poland, Norway, and most of Europe's western territory. Hitler's overall plain parlayed into his views of women and family. In his belief, with the introduction of landmass there would need to be a population growth. To have a raped population growth Hitler "encourage large families by curtailing women's access to equal opportunities, criminalizing abortion, clamping down on homosexuality, and discouraging prostitution "(Fischer 1995). However, underneath the highly publicized view that women should marry and have children were Hitler's true thoughts about women; that women were only smart enough to rear children and run households. Hitler made his ...
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INTRODUCTION Wendy Lower in Hitler’s Furies interrelates the adventures of 13 women who travelled to East Germany in search of jobs, fortune, romance, and even power. These young women (mostly secretaries, wives, teachers and nurses) saw the “wild east” as an exciting opportunity to acquire what most women in Germany dreamed about which were career advancement, marriage and valuable possessions. Hitler’s Furies attacks the claim that women in Germany were largely innocent and hardly participated in Nazi party’s devilry by using examples of seemingly “ordinary” German women who committed heinous crimes under the guise of patriotism. Their crimes were as low as being indignant bystanders to as high as been the perpetrators who were only too
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