The Role of Women and Children in Nazi Germany

After Hitler took power, Nazi teachers in school classrooms began to apply the "principles" of racial science. They measured skull size and nose length, and recorded the color of their pupils' hair and eyes to determine whether students belonged to the true "Aryan race." Jewish and Romani also known as Gypsy students were often humiliated in the process.

After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews.

The new race that he wanted to make was blue eyes and blonde hair he wanted for them to be the main race in Germany. All Jews that were found were either killed or put into concentration camps.The Nazi's and Hitler did not care about the age alll Jews found were taken away. Over 1.5 million children were killed, you can think of it as racism because if you were considered an "undesirable" you were punished. Jews were basically stripped of their citezenship innocent people had to witness very gruesom activites. Thousands of peole were killed in gas chambers, when they got put into the chamberss they realized that they were going to die and they cried out maybe one last time and said there goodbyes. The Jews were tatooed so that they could be indentified because they got their hair cut very short . They were also seperated from their loved ones and were treated like animals. The quote "Names pile up like pebbles on tombstones, to forget you is to let you die twice." -Emily Borenstien this quote means that we will always remeber you and was meant for the innocent people that died. They did not deserve to be treated like this, no one does.

After World War I, Adolf Hitler was one of the dictators that arose; which then gained power in Germany in its Great Depression. Hitler rose to power using techniques such as propaganda, censorship, charisma and terror, but that was not all he did. Hitler started his own fascist party in Germany and called it the Nazi Party. Later, Hitler developed anti-semitism, or prejudice against Jews and dehumanized them. He viewed Jews as a separate race not a religion. This caused many changes particularly to the Jews. During World War I the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews caused political, economic, and social changes.

Prior to Nazi rule, life in Germany had been subject to many hardships. The German People had been victim of

In the 1930’s in Germany, people of all ethnicities were faced with hateful laws, which were prejudice and discriminating. Hitler’s idea was to exterminate as any people that did not fit the superior German race. People who didn’t fit Hitler's expectations were treated with no respect and were condemned of what they owned. As a result, people lived in poverty and were soon moved to different concentration camps. Inside of the concentration camps people suffered from intense hunger, extreme sorrow for family members that were killed by Nazi Soldiers or died from diseases in the camp, forced labor, and further agony.

From 1933 through 1945 was a period of history called the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, people were being killed for their looks, race, and disability. About 11 million people were killed in brutal and tragic ways. Adolf Hitler, the leader, wanted to create a pure race. Racism helped Hitler organize the population into the way he wanted. He wanted people to support the cause of making a pure race. If people opposed, they would be persecuted. Racism allowed Hitler to influence the German people into following his leadership even if it meant genocide.

When Hitler was elected to be leader he seemed like to the type to make everything better, which everybody was looking for at the time, but within a couple months that all went downhill. As the days got longer the Jews felt more and more APPREHENSIVE knowing something was going to happen but couldn't do anything about it.Hitler was the type of person who caused pain for pleasure. During the Holocaust many countries enforced laws towards emigrating citizens out of Germany, like the Johnson Immigration Act which limited many people to staying; the United States had room to take in all the people who needed help but chose not to help.

Hitler persuaded the German race a little bit more everyday that the Jews were responsible for all of Germany’s failures. Hitler began to establish groups for young children that taught them how to report any un-German behavior. This caused many young children to turn against their own families, neighbors, and friends to ensure a Jewish free race. Anyone reported as being Jewish or helping a Jewish person was sent to concentration camps.

Why women? In 1933, Germans began their discrimination against the Jews; men, women, homosexuals, and children alike. Many testimonies, memoirs and historical documents hold the facts of the damage the Nazis inflicted, the amount of Jews that suffered and died, and the lives it changed all around the world. But female victims have their own unique story to tell through a different lens that brings about a whole new horror of its own. It underlines the strength that women hold that marks them as true warriors of survival.

The Third Reich is one of the most notorious eras of German History. Hitler's reign is remembered as tumultuous times filled with violence, bigotry, and racism. A male-controlled society, the Third Reich relegated women to secondary roles, forcing them into lesser jobs and making them primarily focus on the home. Many traditional studies of the Third Reich ignore women or merely acknowledge them superficially. Once women began to receive a place in the histories, it was only as laborers and mothers. The study of women during the Third Reich took time to evolve. This study focuses on showing the evolution of the scholarship of women during the Third Reich; it utilizes eight texts (one with two parts): four journal articles and four monographs

This investigation addresses the topic of to what extent the role of German women in Nazi society was only confined to traditional roles such as motherhood. The books Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields and Nazi Family Policy: 1933-1945 provide different perspectives on the perceived role of German women. Nazi Family Policy is important in examining Nazi ideology regarding family. Hitler’s Furies challenges these beliefs of the Nazi Policy by discussing the active roles played by German women in Nazi genocide.

At the turn of the twentieth century, a new representation of the female race was beginning to emerge in German society. The was primarily a result of the brutal impact of WWI on the population of men in Germany. They had suffered immense loss of life and nearly drained their supply of young men because so many had died in the war. Meanwhile, German women had been forced to fill in the gaps in the labor force. While the men were off in battle, they would do the jobs that men would normally be doing. Consequently, many women became accustomed to working, being paid, and excelling in their careers. This gave way for the emergence of petitioning for other women’s rights such as women’s suffrage, equal pay, and other emancipations. Women began challenging fashion norms and breaking the stigma that a woman’s purpose was limited to the family and home. However, as veterans began to return from war, they began to reclaim their old jobs, women were laid off, and although progress had been made, there was (and still is) a long way to go in order to achieve true equality. Things began to slide back to the way they were, and with the enabling of the Third Reich any ideas of gender equality came crashing down completely.

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.

To begin, before the initiation of WW2, Hitler enforced extremely strict policies on the country of Germany. For instance, Hitler emphasized amongst the population, a clear divide between those who were Volksgenossen (pure German blood) and Gemeinshcaftsfremade (outsiders) (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Visible distinctions were forced to be worn by the latter group such as the Star of David on those who were Jewish (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). The divide amongst the population was created mainly due to antisemitism which was extremely prevalent throughout the time. For example, Jewish people were blamed for Germany’s loss in WWI and in return, their businesses were boycotted, those who were lawyers got disbarred from practicing and their German citizenship was revoked (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Additionally, police