Attitudes To Women In Nazi Germany 1933-1945: An Analysis

Naziism had a huge impact on German youth during Hitler’s reign of power over the state. The life of a German child changed dramatically during the 1920’s and 30’s, especially for

With many young receptive minds at his disposal Hitler initiated the plans that saw all members of Hitler youth indoctrinated into the Nazi ideals. Hitler made it publicly clear what his plans for brainwashing the youths would consist of: “After these youths have entered our organisations at the age of ten, and there experienced, for the first time, some fresh air….. We shall under no circumstances return them into the hands of our old champions of class and social standing, but instead place them immediately in the party, or the labour front, the SA or SS….. And thus they will never be free again for the rest of their lives.” The Nazis successfully achieved the indoctrination by employing many different subtle brainwashing techniques. For example, at drill times, the repetitive use of a song helped numb the young minds of the Hitler Youth. These songs would invariably be related to duty, blood, honour, soil and above all death and fighting. The lyrics of one such song goes like this: “We are marching for Hitler through night and dread/ with the banner of youth for freedom and bread.” This indoctrination

Firstly, both political figures had opposing perceptions on the role of women. Stalin considered women as men’s equal and thus restricted the practicing of gender discrimination in the USSR (Trueman, 2015b). Hitler, on the other hand, perceived women as men’s inferior whose sole duty was to conceive several children (Waugh, 2001). Both men had conflicting insights regarding the treatment of minority groups. Stalin would refrain himself from coining any racist remark when delivering speeches (Waugh, 2001). Such caution could be enumerated by the fact that Stalin was a communist. Hitler was however very critical when referring to Non-Aryan residents, especially the Jews (McAleavy, 2002). His claim that the Jews were solely responsible for all German setbacks could be used to emphasize how much he resented the Jews (McAleavy,

Then the Nazis had to prepare for the future and the future of Germany was the youth. Many organisations like the Hitler youth and the league for German Maidens were set up to teach the youth to follow the Nazis. In the Hitler youth they were taught like the military, neat, tidy and organised. The youth saw Hitler as a father figure in the fatherland and obeyed him. Then Hitler used indoctrination in the education system to recruit them into the army as loyal Nazis. There were subtle Nazi views added into all school work to brainwash the youth, as they were naive and didn’t see the wrong side of the Nazis true nature. The future of the people’s community was successfully secure and the Nazis would keep control for years to come.

The first way Adolf Hitler used education to make students into good Nazis, was to change their textbooks and their school curriculum to further Nazi ideals. Doing this would make every student learn the Nazi ideas, whether they wanted to or not. For example, paragraph 10 states, “For Hitler, education had one purpose: to mold children into good Nazis. As soon as the Nazis came to power, they took control of the public schools, called National Schools. They threw out old textbooks and implemented new ones. They rewrote the curriculum from top to bottom, so it only taught Nazi-approved ideas.” This means Hitler wanted the children to

From 1933, the Nazis Party have aimed to create the policy of Volksgemeinschaft, this is a component focused on the heart of the people’s community based on traditional values of the German people. The German society underwent radical changes under the Nazi regime as Hitler introduced various policies that have had a substantial effect on 6 prominent groups: German women, youth, schools and universities and churches, working class and the Jews. The implementation of Hitler’s new policies in the period 1933-1939 can be assessed to have significantly effected and transformed Germany society socially and culturally.

In his speech to the National Socialist Women’s League on September 8th 1934, Hitler delineated the roles that German men and women should have in society. He proclaimed and he defined that a woman’s world should be limited to “just her husband, her family, her children, and her home”. The rights of German women were greatly repressed since Nazi ideology regarding gender was extremely traditionalist. For the National Socialists, women were to occupy traditional roles of support and care, all in service of creating a master race. For an “Aryan” woman living in Nazi Germany, “to be a wife and mother” should be her highest

Women in Nazi Germany is based upon the Nazi regime’s attitudes, policies, and ideologies concerning the role of women in the public and private sphere. Stephenson argues that the women of Nazi Germany should be studied in depth, including the support they gave to the regime, the treatment they received, and the different roles they played. However, she argues they should not be studied separately from the other happenings at the time, but instead, they should be incorporated into the history just as the men are. This book reviews their roles, functions, and how they were controlled by the Nazi leadership, and also their lives in pre-Nazi Germany.

The women in Nazi Germany had a very specific role set up for them. The specifications of their job consisted of revolving around their house duties, their husbands and their children. Most of the income in the family would come from the husband, while back at home, the women would tidy up and keep everything in place. The encouragement of marrying at a young age, and getting a proper family dates back to 1933, from when Hitler first rose to power, and the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage was introduced. This law specified that all newly married couples would get a government loan of 1000 marks which was about 9 months average income. This loan was not to be simply paid back. The birth of one child meant that 25% of the loan did not

Hitler and the Nazis believed that the perfect women should only be a rural farmer. However, the oppressive nature of the regime meant that even in this area, seen as the best position for women the Nazi played a major role in the how things were run. This move the Nazis was a setback of the effort on the war front. Without the farms running smoothly, there was no produce for the Front lines to fuel the soldiers. As well, there was produce needed for the citizens on the home front. For this reason, many farmer’s wives were keeping the food from the government for themselves or to sell in black markets (citation). Hitler’s oppression for farmers came through most noticeably when German farming women were being overloaded with work and they

Hitler installed a program for women who had a certain number of children to receive awards, if you had 8 or more children. Hitler himself would present you with a gold medal (citation). Hitler was recorded saying during a speech to a women’s organization meeting, “Every child that a woman brings into the world is a battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people” (citation). Hitler believed that every child born to Germany by German women would further the Aryan cause to dominate the world with a higher race of beings and with the women giving birth they were contributing to this great cause and should be rewarded.

This is not to say that women were viewed as useless or worthless in Nazi Germany. It was quite the contrary. Women were a crucial part of Hitler’s plan to expand the “Aryan” race to maximum capacity. Women were exalted and celebrated on all kinds of propaganda

Through the ideology of the Nazis, such as encouraging traditional women roles such as child bearing, women felt liberated from oppressive working conditions, and economic instability. These gender roles created stability, and comfort when emancipation in the Weimer Republic could not. The Nazi Party appealed to the societal turmoil of the Republic, using women’s liberation as a key to the downfall of German society. Joseph Goebbels uses this societal unbalance to bring women back into a conservative sphere. In reference to women Goebbels political freedoms he

In this essay I will discuss the methods that Hitler used to influence the young Germans until the end of the World War II. To analyze this topic will be considerable to show several points. I will discuss the people who supported Hitler in his rise to the power as background, how the Nazis used Nazi Propaganda to influence to youngsters, clarify why the young people

Hitler became the fuhrer with one main goal, to make germany great again. This Goal caused him to make some major changes to germany. And his main focus was to change the role of women and children. Hitler wanted to alter the roles of women and children by making them better (in his own way) therefore making a greater germany. His attempt failed because he made the roles for women and children worse. He did quite the opposite of what he wanted because he caused amounts of diseases to increase, he brainwashed kids, caused the juvenile crime to increase, made the number of divorces to increase, and also decreased the number of female workers. Many people believe that when Hitler became Fuhrer, he actually did some good. But it turns even before the war hitler caused a lot of damage to germany and its citizens. And when the war started conditions worsen.