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The desire to abolish 1920s fashion in Nazi Germany was consistent with Nazi propaganda which was insistent on limiting women to the private sphere as housewives and mother figures. [ 41 ] While the Nazi government sought to create a maternal ideal for the Aryan woman, they also sought financial gain from the textile industry. [ 42 ]
Another use of Nazi propaganda was that they wanted women to have as many Aryan children that they could bear to make a future for the next generations master race. [268] The encouragement of by the Nazis came to its peak in 1939 with the introducing of "The Honor Cross of the German Mother" which went to mothers who provided an "important ...
The NS-Frauen-Warte, aimed at women, included such topics as the role of women in the Nazi state. [83] Despite its propaganda elements, it was predominantly a women's magazine. [ 84 ] It defended anti-intellectualism , [ 85 ] urged women to have children, even in wartime, [ 86 ] [ 87 ] put forth what the Nazis had done for women, [ 88 ...
The NS-Frauen-Warte ("National Socialist Women's Monitor") was the Nazi magazine for women. [1] Put out by the NS-Frauenschaft, it had the status of the only party approved magazine for women [2] and served propaganda purposes, particularly supporting the role of housewife and mother as exemplary.
In art of Nazi Germany, both landscape paintings and figures reflected blood-and-soil ideology. [45] Indeed, some Nazi art exhibits were explicitly titled "Blood and Soil". [46] Artists frequently gave otherwise apolitical paintings such titles as "German Land" or "German Oak". [47] Rural themes were heavily favored in painting. [48]
Mildred Elizabeth Gillars (née Sisk; November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988) [1] was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during World War II. Following her capture in post-war Berlin, Gillars became the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. [2]
The National Socialist Women's League (German: Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, abbreviated NS-Frauenschaft) was the women's wing of the Nazi Party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and Nazi women's associations, such as the German Women's Order (German: Deutscher Frauenorden, DFO) which had been founded in ...
Hessy Levinsons Taft (born Hessy Levinsons; 17 May 1934), [1] a Jewish German, was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find "the most beautiful Aryan baby" in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, such as magazines and postcards, to promote Aryanism.