Pre-Nazi Social Trends for German Women

Debarring married women from jobs in medicine, law, and the higher ranks of the civil service, reducing the number of female teachers and university students, providing interest-free loans for young women who left work to get married, reducing income tax in proportion to the number of children, and advising labour exchanges and employers to discriminate in favor of men.

The introduction of conscription and the rearmament boom led to an increased demand for workers, making it difficult to keep women at home. The decline in female employment was reversed, and the divorce rate continued to increase, leading to contradictory and incoherent Nazi policy towards women and the family.

'Kinder, Küche, Kirche' (‘children, kitchen and Church’)

<p>It provided homes for unmarried mothers of racially correct children and later also made arrangements for girls to be impregnated by members of the SS.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Honour Cross of the German Mother in bronze, silver, and gold, awarded for four, six, and eight children, respectively.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Population growth had slowed markedly and female employment expanded by at least a third.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of contraception to limit family size and the impact of the First World War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Nazis aimed for women to have more children, become housewives, and stop paid employment, opposing the social and economic female emancipation trends of the time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Nazis believed that nature had given the two sexes entirely different roles, and they held the view that 'a woman’s place was to be in the home'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The First World War drove women into the factories and encouraged them to stay on working due to postwar economic problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers