HISTORY

ÁGUEDA GONZÁLEZ LLOR AND TERESA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ

Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

WOMEN

1. What it was like to be a woman between 1933-1939?2. Women´s clothing3. " The Nazi ideal " : Women as guardians of the Aryan race.4. Lebensborn

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Women were pressured to fulfill domestic roles and be mothers to support the Nazi vision of family and society. Women who were doctors, teachers and civil servants were forced to abandon their careers. Even at the end of the war, women were never asked to serve in the armed forces.

what it was like to be a woman between 1933-1939

• They were expected not to wear makeup or pants, dye their hair...

• Flat shoes

• Hair in braids or buns

• Simple peasant costumes

• NOT smoke in public.

They had to copy the traditional clothing of German peasants:

WOMEN´S CLOTHING

Nazi policy encouraged racially "acceptable" couples to have as many children as possible. Due to the number of children in the family of this Nazi Party officer, the mother earned the "Mother's Cross."

"The Nazi ideal" : women as guardians of the Aryan race

LEBENSBORN

Its goal was to promote the reproduction of people considered racially "pure." Through this program, special homes were created where single or married pregnant "Aryan" women could give birth and raise their children in a state-supported environment.