The Nazi Organisation of Women EPUB

by Jill (University of Edinburgh, UK) Stephenson

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Women's History series

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The Naziâ€™s were implacably opposed to feminism and womenâ€™s independence.

Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics.

Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers', and their task was to support their fighting menfolk by providing food and making and mending uniforms and flags. The miscellany of womenâ€™s organisations was dissolved and reunified by Gregor Strasser in 1931, and in 1934 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink became an overall leader of the Nazi Womenâ€™s Group, after which it functioned primarily as a propaganda channel.

Part of the policy of Gleichschaltung (co-ordination) meant that even to join a sewing group, women had to choose the party group or nothing.

This book provides a detailed and fascinating picture of the origins, development and functions of the specifically womenâ€™s organisations associated with the NSDAP from their beginnings in the early 1920s, until their demise in 1945.

It traces the history of the Nazi Womenâ€™s Group, the sources of its members and analyses their ambitions and hopes from the Frauenwerk.

Its purpose is above all to make an important contribution to the study of National Socialism as a movement which attracted and held the enthusiasm of a small minority of Germans who, given the chance from 1933, attempted to impose their will on the majority.