Treatment of Women in Nazi Germany

Using the green book, complete the focus task on page 211 that involves an assessment of the Nazis treatment of women.

'Nazi policy for women was confused.', I agree with this statement because women would see other women doing things that they're not allowed to do and they could be wondering why Hitler's telling them not to. For example on page 210, a film star Marlene Dietrich was wearing trousers and in the newspaper to show the German women that if you're really German then you don't wear trousers. So if a German women really liked her then they might have been wondering why do they have to listen to Hitler, if she's wearing trousers then so can they.

'Nazi policy for women was a failure.' This statement is somewhat true. In the beginning I think the Nazi policy for women was successful because the Nazis have propaganda everywhere such as Source 51 of what a perfect family should look like so when women see something like that, they're probably thinking 'oh my family has to be just like that or better, so I have to start dressing like this woman and have a bunch of kids'. Women would also earn awards for having the most kids and because of this the birth rate of children in Germany increased from 1933 to 1939. The Nazi policy for women was success that way, but it failed in Hitler's idea of only men working and women just being housewives and taking care of children. They weren't allowed to work, but once Germany started to run out of unemployed men in the late 1930s, they had to start bringing in women to work as well.