The Nazi Killing Fields And Nazi Family Policy

During the war it was up to the women to replace the men that went off to fight, some women chose to take over the jobs while some chose to stay and take care of their family. The women were forced to work and and to have children but the government did not have any luck (“ War Impact on Life in Germany”). The German government was trying to increase the birth rate because they did not know how long the war was going to last and if they would need more soldiers. The women had to deal with so much stress everyday. Just watching their children going to school could have been the last time they every saw them. The fathers where only allowed to come home and visit twice a year.

The policies towards women suffered because they tended to contradict other policies. For example, the Hitler Youth took away the children from the family environment and to challenge any non Nazi opinions from their parents. This somewhat differs from the image of a healthy, happy Aryan family that the state desired to be commonplace throughout the country. During the Second World War procreation outside marriage was seen as acceptable, and the Lebensborn programme opened what were essentially state run brothels. The policies also failed to keep women in the home, as a result of the economic recovery. As the need for workers grew, a conflict between ideology and economic

The second section of Beverly Chalmers book, Birth, Sex and Abuse, deals with sexuality among Germans and sexual abuse among Jewish women. Chalmers provides interesting information on how the Nazi’s banned homosexuality, birth control, and feminist organizations (Ibid 145). Chalmers outlines that the goals of the Nazi party by repressing sexuality like homosexuals and feminist movements was to promote pronatalist policies like reproduction so women could bear more children for the superior Aryan race. Chalmers’ extensive study of brothels in concentration camps interested me because I did not realize the SS allowed prostitution inside concentration camps and the majority of these women were Germans because Jewish women were not allowed to be prostitutes due to the Rassenschande laws. Chalmers’ study of German women in brothels broadens the traditional study of the Holocaust because rather than always focusing on non-German women’s experiences it allows people that study the Holocaust to examine how German women were affected by the Holocaust in

“Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich” by Alison Owings displays interviews with women who lived in Germany during the 1930s to 1940s. The two women in this book, Liselotte Otting and Freya von Moltke discuss their feelings about the Nazi government and their actions, most importantly how they felt about genocide of the Jewish population. Both women discussed their attitude and behavior toward during this time.

Chalmers accounts of births in the concentration camps by numerous testimonies of women in Revier, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbruck, and Bergen-Belsen and reveals that in each concentration camp, pregnancy and birth varied because some women were sent to gas chambers pregnant, some were allowed to give birth but their baby was drowned immediately, and some were allowed to give birth and remain with their child. However, the main theme of giving birth in concentration camps is that survival rates for women and their children were extremely low compared to any other prisoners in concentration camps. The analysis of pregnant women in concentration camps provides a new outlook and broader view of the Holocaust because rarely are pregnant women studied closely in Holocaust literature, which causes pregnant women to be stigmatized for having the same fate as all other prisoners in concentration camps. It puts in perspective of how all Jews were targets of Nazi genocide, but Jewish women who were pregnant or had a child posed a threat to the Aryan Race and were the most vulnerable

Eva Braun was the twenty-three years younger girlfriend and then wife of Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party. Historians argue over how involved in her partners’ tyranny; did she take support the ideologies and cruelty from behind the scenes or was she in denial about the events she knew were happening? This essay will look into these questions.

At the beginning of the war, many women who considered themselves feminists, were excited for the Nazi party. These women believed that Hitler and the Nazi party would allow equality in their country. That they would employ and treat women fairly in the public and private spheres of life. However, it became very clear that this was not the Nazi ideology. Many women accepted this fact or even went on to agree with it. However, there were some feminists that disagreed and continued to fight back. Though women never resisted the Nazi party as a united force. Most acts of resistance were done by lone females, who held the belief of the feminist movement. However, because these acts of resistance were done by lone females, this made it easier for

#1 Despite the policy of Nazi party has not specified its gender distinction toward Jews women, but women didn’t experienced too much different than men, they still have to face the death threaten from the Nazi party. Moreover, refer to the contemporary document that women were stripped naked in front of men which is extremely humiliated to all the women from the mentally and physically regard to any race even in nowadays.

Women in Nazi German experienced and lifestyles were heavily influenced by Adolf Hitler. They had to stay at home, stop working, and bear children. For many women they believed and followed Hitler policies. This wasn’t the case for all women. There was with inequality and discrimination between men and women.

Adolf Hitler has long been the focus of many debates and arguments. It is accurate to say that he is one of the most controversial leaders ever to walk the Earth. It is hard to believe by most how such a cruel and oddly looking man became the leader of a very powerful country. Hitler's rise to power was not through that of brute force (except for his first try through the Beer Hall Putsch), but rather through his ideas of a better, superior Germany. In this paper I want to examine Hitler's childhood and life in the army during WW I, how it shaped his thoughts on Jews, and his tedious rise to "Fur her" in Germany. I also want to answer the question, "was the fall of Hitler preventable or inevitable?"

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”

The 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

After World War II, most of Germany was in ruins, under masses of rubble. Its infrastructure was in shambles and its economy was rapidly declining. Poverty was basically inevitable for many German citizens. However, by mid-century, many scholars believed West Germany experienced what scholars termed as the “economic miracle.” However, such depiction caused many people to neglectfully overlook just how intense hardships were for West German citizens during that time. This was especially so for the German woman after the war had come to its close in 1945. Husbands, fathers, and brothers were returning home wounded or not returning at all, so many women came to realize it was time for them to rebuild society in the absence of their men. This paper aims to examine how films like that of The Marriage of Maria Braun explicitly depict how one German woman was able to embody postwar Germany through untraditional but realistic methods.

The Impact of Nazi Policies on the Position and Role of Women in Germany, 1933-39

To begin with, Goebbels’ portrayal of motherhood supplies an interesting look into the set gender roles that Nazi officials established for German women to perform. His speech had the intention to convince the German population that the sole reason