Women in Nazi Germany

The Nazis wanted women to...

• Go out and enjoy themselves, go to parties, but have lots of children.

• Marry, have lots of children, stay at home and be a good wife and mother.

• Go out, wear make up and meet a man to marry.

The Nazis thought a woman's appearance should include

• A Bob hair cut, sleeveless dresses and make up.

• Long blonde hair, long colourful dresses and no make up.

• Dress in plain traditional dresses, have their hair tied up in a bun or in plaits, wear no make up.

Women could do a range of jobs in Nazi Germany, including...

• Teaching, practising law and working for the government

• TV, Radio and Main Stream Media work

• Cooking, Cleaning and looking after children at home.

The Nazis needed lots of children because...

• Nazis liked children and it was nice to have them around

• The Nazis needed more children because they needed more women and men to populate the Germany

• The Nazis needed more men and women to become soldiers and workers in a future war.

The message of this poster is ....

• This woman is working in the fields because her husband died and left her alone

• This woman is ploughing the fields because the Weimar Republic has no money to buy tractors

• This woman is a clairvoyant and can see the ghosts of dead people and animals

• This woman is working in the fields so the German army has food and can win its battles.

The Nazis policy on women were very popular with a lot of German people because (tick which apply)

• It was really important to look after children at home

• Men thought that women should give up their jobs for them

• The churches agreed that women should stay at home and look after the children and the home.

• Lots of traditional rural communities had lived like this for 100's of years and thought it was the traditional role for women.

A German woman would have recieved this Cross for ....

• Having three children

• Having six children

• Having eight children

By 1939, 1.4 million more women were working than when the Nazis came to power in 1933. The reasons for this were...(tick which apply)

• German women had produced enough children by 1936

• Unemployment had fallen by 1936, and Germany needed more workers

• More men had gone into the army, so Germany needed more women workers

• Women rebelled against the Nazis and went out to get jobs

Look at the German Vogue advertisement from the time of Weimar. What would the Nazis hate about it? (tick all those that apply)

• That the woman is out and not at home

• That the woman likes a good time and doesn't like to be told what to do?

• That the woman is not thinking about marrying and having children

• That she probably has a job and doesn't care about listening to the Nazis and doing what they wanted her to do