Hitler During The Nazi Era

While this book could be considered very academic, I considered it to be a leisurely read because it was so well written by Kerber. The passion behind the authors want to reveal this unknown historical event of what Kerber refers to as, “ The Womens’ War”, makes the book inspirational. The true meaning of the term “Republican Motherhood”, made the word radicalism come to live in this historical setting. In result of these women changing and breaking the wall of a traditional role, they are finally accepted not just as domestic creatures, but as capable partners to create virtuous citizens. It is an empowering book that opens the reader’s eyes to the one – sided history that previous to this book had been the only text by historians

“The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.” This quote from Margaret Sanger highlights many first wave feminists views about the restrictions of motherhood, marriage, and household responsibilities. Many women saw being a mother as a chore or as something out of their control. Sanger fought these restrictions through bringing birth control to the general public who suffered from poverty due to large families. Others, like Charlotte Perkins Gilman, wrote social critiques in her texts “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland to bring attention to how society treats women and ideally how motherhood should be. Both of these women believed motherhood was a responsibility of women and they should take it more seriously to create better future generations. This goes beyond the suffrage and equality movement because it dictated that women’s sexual emancipation was equally important as women’s legal emancipation. Being a mother was considered a woman’s most crucial task at this time, therefore the power behind female sexual education and birth control challenged society to feminist.

Where Stephenson covers women's farm labor superficially, Clifford R. Lovin's 1986 article "Farm Women in the Third Reich" focuses solely on the subject. Lovin argues there was a need for this study in order to have a "better understanding of women and of agriculture in the Third Reich" and that a work such as this will "provide some insights into the relationship between ideology and economic policy, between romanticism and practicality."

“Food became scarce… ration system… meat potatoes… milk, sugar, butter and soap”, through the emotional tone, the clear representation of the lack of the economic wealth is identified. Having to ration basic human rights due to total war, expresses what many individuals would of has to live on. Furthermore, the source depicts the lengthens that individuals would go to in order to prevent starvation “smuggled goods”. While, this source is of great detail of experience of war time within Germany, it only holds one perspective of an individual, thus lack reliability of events that occurred within the time. Within the hardships that the nation faced, increasingly women gained employment in ‘unusual work’. the fact further supports the impact that the total war had on social and economic aspects within Germany as, basic supplies were ‘scare’ and women whom were not seen as part of the workforce, gained employment which would have usually been seen as a ‘male job’ thus, the work would be completed by a

In Nazi Germany, women played a crucial role in expanding the Nazi ideology in Eastern Europe. Women who were sent to Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe were called “Hitler’s Furies”, and were seen as “`racist motherliness': the women were urged to devote themselves selflessly to their German charges while banishing from their minds any sympathy for the non-German population.” This indoctrination was not always involuntary, many women of the time felt empowered at a time when many of these women were still finding their identity. The services offered by the Nazi’s gave them a sense of belonging to society, as well as high hopes for making a difference in it. To travel appealed to many women during 1939, and into the 1940’s, but for others it was

The social inferior were made to live a hard life because of the horrible ways the Nazis treated them. Women were expected to fulfil very specific roles set by Hitler during the 1930s. The role was to be good mothers, to as many children as possible while the husband

After World War One, German women became more involved in the workforce as there was a shortage of men to fill the empty positions. This gave women more opportunities to be self reliant and equal to men. When the Nazis were elected into office in January 1933 it was their goal to remove women from the workforce. This is one area where Nazi oppressive leadership led to their downfall. When World War Two started, many men left to fight in the war. German women were needed to fill their positions. With the strict Nazi policies, this was unable to happen. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi were reluctant to allow women to join workforce, as it was their belief women belonged in the home.

Societal status and a woman’s obligations play a role key role in the oppression of society and the police during the 1970s in Germany. The interactive oral presentation discussed the responsibilities as a housewife and limitations that were imposed on German women by the public. The discussion allowed me to understand the crucial role each of the characters in the novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum played which facilitates the author to express the satirical notion of the press and the inequitable roles people played in German society. A woman’s worth is only manifested by how she devotes her life to her family and marriage. Although women gained the right to vote in 1919, women were still suppressed in a patriarchal society, where men

Start the paragraph with how during this time period, motherhood was the most important role for women and how the Nazi’s were worried that if the birth rate would continue to decrease, Germany would be unsuccessful in taking its place as a world power. Talk about different techniques they tried to stop this trend, such as banning abortion and “marriage loans”

Sophie Scholl was a young German anti-Nazi activist. Introduced to political opinions at a very young age, Scholl

In Nazi Germany, the role of women was encouraged to be more traditional. Nazis’ believed that the men should be the breadwinners and women should be the homemakers. The role for men and women were portrayed separately and should not be intertwined. Even during times of high unemployment, women were discouraged to work because they would be competition for the men. Although, during the great depression, some women needed to work to help their family survive. The Nazis understood the need, but still urged the women to stay towards tasks that suited their roles such as housekeeping, teaching, and nursing. The Nazis not only expected women to be great housekeepers, but also encouraged women to bear children only of German descent. The Nazis held

The contradictory views of women seemed to serve the United States during World War I and World War II. When the workforce was in drastic need of more people, women were readily accepted to bridge the shortfall, however, when each war was over women were expected to return to their previous roles of wife and mother (Bryant, 2002). In this way, the conflicting viewpoints of men like Hall and Münsterberg seem to have been mirrored

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.

Part of this freedom for women came at a price though that ultimately turned many way from this liberalized style of movement. Women workers, while they were allowed jobs, were almost always underpaid and had to work long hours. Women made up 35% of the work force in Germany but got paid ¼ of their men counterparts. Inflation was also rising; in 1921 the German Mark was approximately 335 to 1 US dollar, undermining any savings and threatening the sense of security for women worker. Hurting other feelings of security, was the rise of social deviances in cities such an increases in rapes, abortions, prostitution, homicides and pornography’s creating a feeling of societal unbalance and corrosion. Many women in Germany felt threated by this new wave of movements. These women longed for the traditional way of living and the old standard for motherhood and social normality. The liberal movements from emancipation and social abnormality during this time threated the social order. As social order is decaying a desire for a stable sexual identity and roles provided men and women in this era

Vogel’s analysis of the contribution of various 19th and 20th century socialists, which actually makes up much of the first two thirds of the book, is weak when compared to the final section elaborating her own theory of social reproduction. In particular, Vogel fails to engage with some important arguments made by Clara Zetkin and Lenin, as well as Rosa Luxemburg, Alexandra Kollontai and Leon Trotsky (the latter does not even warrant a mention), about the key role of the working class in obtaining women’s liberation. Each of these revolutionaries argued vociferously that it would be necessary for working class women to fight alongside working class men to achieve their