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Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984. Tscharntke, Denise. Re-educating German Women: the Work of the Women's Affairs Section of the British Military Government, 1946–1951 (P. Lang, 2003). Williamson, Gordon. World War II German Women's Auxiliary Services (Osprey, 2012).
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 ...
Women were barred from government and university positions. Women's rights groups, such as the moderate BDF, were disbanded, and replaced with new social groups that would reinforce Nazi values, under the leadership of the Nazi Party and the head of women's affairs in Nazi Germany, Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. [24]
In the beginning, women in Nazi Germany were not involved in the Wehrmacht, as Adolf Hitler ideologically opposed conscription for women, [3] stating that Germany would "not form any section of women grenade throwers or any corps of women elite snipers." [4] However, with many men going to the front, women were placed in auxiliary positions within the Wehrmacht, called Wehrmachtshelferinnen ...
Photographed by Sergeant Harry Oakes on 17 April 1945, the camp was liberated two days later and the women were arrested on 15 May. SS-Gefolge was the designation for the group of female civilian employees of the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany.
Women sent their children to school wearing necklaces featuring crucifixes. In 1935, a group of men pushed their way into a school to replace Hitler's picture with a crucifix. The Bavarian Government Presidents expressed concern about the interference of Holy days and the morale of the Catholic population in August 1937.
Founded in 1894, it grew to include 137 separate women's rights groups from 1907 until 1933, when the Nazi regime disbanded the organization. [69] The BDF gave national direction to the proliferating women's organizations that had sprung up since the 1860s.
The Women's Rosenstraße Protest in Nazi Berlin, Nathan Stoltzfus; Resistance by Berlin women against Goebbels (German language) Encyclopedia of Jewish Suffering, Book review of Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation. Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon and Chana Schuetz, The University of Chicago Press.