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The ideal woman in Nazi Germany did not have a career outside her home. Instead, she was a good wife (however her husband defined that), a careful and conscientious mother (taking special care to raise her children in accordance with Nazi philosophies and ideals), and skilled at doing all domestic chores such as cleaning and cooking.
The guidelines for being an ideal woman in Nazi Germany were as follows: Women should not work for a living. Women should not wear trousers. Women should not wear makeup. Women should not wear high-heeled shoes. Women should not dye or perm their hair. Women should not go on slimming diets.
Women were central to Adolf Hitler ’s plan to create an ideal “Aryan” community (Volksgemeinschaft). Praising German women as “our most loyal, fanatical fellow-combatants,” Hitler valued women for both their activism in the Nazi movement and their biological power as generators of the race.
Aug 7, 2018 · The ideal Nazi woman did not work outside of the home and had extremely limited educational and political aspirations. Save a few notable exceptions among the elite ranks of society, a woman’s role in Nazi Germany was to give birth to Aryan babies and raise them as faithful subjects of the Reich.
- Graham Land
Aug 2, 2016 · How did the Nazi government define the ideal role of women? How was their vision different from the roles some women had played before the Nazis came to power? What does this vision of women ask women to do and to be? What does it offer them in return? Why was increasing the population so important to the Nazis?
This thesis examines the Nazi Party’s ideals regarding women in Germany from 1933-1945. It looks at how propaganda was used to foster a desire in women for the continuation of separate spheres, and motherhood as the ultimate expression of womanhood. The goal is to show how the ideal woman, according to propaganda of the
1 / 9. Women were central to the Nazis’ vision of the Third Reich and their future Volksgemeinschaft . Küche, Kinder and Kirche. According to Nazi ideology, a woman’s place was in the home. In their approach to German women, the Nazis’ emphasised three traditional guiding principles: Küche, Kinder and Kirche (kitchen, children and church).
