Women In The Third Reich
While Nazi Germany has been the subject of countless scholarly works, gender studies, as a category of analysis, has largely been neglected in interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This book examines the female half of the German population during the years of the Third Reich and asks why such a sizeable portion of the population was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public life. It explains how ordinary Germans translated...
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While Nazi Germany has been the subject of countless scholarly works, gender studies, as a category of analysis, has largely been neglected in interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This book examines the female half of the German population during the years of the Third Reich and asks why such a sizeable portion of the population was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public life. It explains how ordinary Germans translated Nazi beliefs into action and what factors, in addition to gender, influenced women's political choices between 1933 and 1945.
List of TablesAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction11The Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis9The position of women after the First World War11Nazism and the 'women question' in the 1920s16The impact of the economic depression21The Nazi seizure of power252The incorporation of women into the Nazi state34The DFW and the women's 'work of the nation'36Nazi propaganda and the ideal Nazi woman40Strength through joy46The policing of female sexuality and the reproductive sphere503The impact of Nazi racial policies59Nazi policies towards the Jews61'Mixed' marriages and 'mixed' partnerships67The 'hereditary ill', 'asocials' and others 'unworthy of life'70Women as agents of Nazi racial policy754Women and work84Women and the labour market in the 1930s85Women and the wartime labour force91Jewish women and forced labour96Civilian deportees, prisoners of war, concentration camp inmates1005Education, youth, opportunity108Education and opportunity110The BDM - League of German Maidens113Labour service schemes116German youth at war, 1939-19451206Opposition and resistance128Types of opposition and resistance130Organised resistance133Opposition and non-conformity in everyday life139German-Jewish women in hiding and in the concentration camps1437From total war to defeat and military occupation150War on the home front: rationing and its impact152Marriage, divorce and sexual relations at time of war154Denunciations and their consequences159The bombing of German towns162The last weeks of the war and the first days of peace165Conclusion174Bibliography183Index193
