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Women inside Nazi Germany

“The slogan “emancipation of woman” was invented by Jewish intellectuals and its content was formed of the same sprit … If the man´s world is said to be the state, his struggle, his readiness to devote his powers to the service of the community, then it may perhaps be said that the woman´s world is a smaller world. For her world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. But what would become of the greater world if there was no one to tend and care for the smaller one? How could the greater world survive if there were no one to make the cares of the smaller world to content of their lives? No, the grater world is built on the foundation of the smaller world. Providence has entrusted to the women the cares of the world which is her very own, and only on the basis of this smaller world are not antagonistic. They complement each other, they belong together, just as man and women belong together.” - Adolf Hitler

Source: Frankfurter Zeitung, 9 September 1934

The Nazi regime had strongly opposed ideas of equal rights for woman. Every woman lived in a male- dominated world. The Nazi system insisted that women and men had tattily different roles in life. Nazis main tacks for women were to be beautiful and to bring children into the world. That was the only job from them. While men wore uniform, defeat the country and be rewarded for that. Women were just expected to be wives and mothers with nothing in return or some gratefulness. Nazi Germany didn’t allowed woman to vote of any kind, they couldn’t judge or represent local or in national politics.

The Nazi party separate woman in three big organizations. The German Woman´s Enterprise, the National Socialist Womanhood and the Reich Mother´s service. The first one was the German woman´s enterprise that were the ones in charge of encouraging woman to attend cookery courses, they were 5.8 million members. The second group was the National Socialist Womanhood that had 2.8 million members; they should promote the Nations love life as marriage, motherhood, the family, blood and race, youth nationhood. And finally The Reich Mothers’ Service promoting child care.

Between 1933 and 1939 the number of woman in employment increased from 5 million to 7.4 million. Female labor was very cheap. At the start of the war women were not called up for either military or labor service. Until 1943 that was when women finally conscripted to work for the war effort.

In my opinion it’s true that women are pillars of their own small world and that is very important that they care for their house, children and husband. But even that should be a choice and not an imposition. All families should be able to decide how they bring up their home and children. I believe woman should be able to explore and exploit other abilities, throughout history the role of women in the world has been very important and women have demonstrated to be great professionals and great leaders.

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Education inside Nazi Germany 

A key aim of the regime was to insert the young with a new set of ideas. And the way to make this possible was by creating a new education system. Hitler makes Bernhard Rust Reich Minister of Science, Education and Popular Culture. He was diagnosed with mental instability, but because of his extreme methods he takes the job and restores the education program. He forced all schools in Germany to upgrade the importance of practical skill increasing and physical fitness from two to 5 hours a day, putting away the other classes. New textbook were produced but now with the Nazi ideology. Rust adds a new course of history on the rise of the Nazi party.  

All teachers were enrolled in the Nazi teachers´ association. Between 1932 and 1938 the number of qualified elementary teachers fell by 17,000.Party membership increasingly ranked more highly in selection of new teachers than formal teaching qualifications.

In case of the German universities, world leaders in so many subjects went into a sharp decline under the Nazi regime. Hitler had all under his control, professors and the academic life of universities. Between 1933 and 1939 a total of 2,800 lecturers and over 300 full professors were dismissed because of political and racial reasons. But it steel being a great majority that they did not oppose the brutal destruction of intellectual and scientific knowledge.

It became a very fashionable subject “the Racial Sciences” which focused on Hitler’s crude racial theories, while the natural science went into a steep decline. Brilliant scientists fled abroad like Einstein.

University education by the Nazi regime fell in the number of students, from 127,920 in 1933 to 58,325 in 1938. Instead all students had to undertake four month of labor service in an SA camp and engage in three hours of sport per week as part of their degree studies.

In my opinion I think Nazi Germany as with any dictatorial government was focused on brain washing people from their youngest age, so that they could keep control for much longer and pass on their horrible ideas of racial difference. As any other people involved in this terrible era many teacher in that time had to follow the Nazi’s orders because they were afraid of their lives and the wellbeing of their family.

-          Frank McDonough, Hitler and Nazi Germany , England (Cambrige University) 1999.

By: Nicole Gutiérrez De Rutté