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5 September – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (died 1945) 22 September – Franz Peter Wirth, German film director (died 1999) 29 September – Margot Hielscher, German actress and singer (died 2017) 3 October – Hella Brock, German musicologist (died 2020) 7 October – Annemarie Renger, German politician ...
Germany's Reichstag had 32 women deputies in 1926 (6.7% of the Reichstag), giving women representation at the national level that surpassed countries such as Great Britain (2.1% of the House of Commons) and the United States (1.1% of the House of Representatives); this climbed to 35 women deputies in the Reichstag in 1933 on the eve of the Nazi ...
4 February 1919: Belarus — Women were granted the right to vote and stand in elections. [7] [8]10 February 1919: U.S. Senate defeats women's suffrage amendment. [9]10 February 1919: Paris, France — The Inter-Allied Women's Conference, also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States, convened to compile a list of women's issues to present to the ...
Italy surrendered in 1943, followed by Germany and Japan in 1945. The United States was one of the "Allied Big Four", alongside the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China. [80] [81] The U.S. emerged relatively unscathed from the war, with even greater economic and military influence. [82]
Women in Nazi Germany (Pearson Education, 2001). Stibbe, Matthew. Women in the Third Reich (Arnold, 2003), Wildenthal, Lora. German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 (Duke University Press, 2001) Wunder, Heide, and Thomas J. Dunlap, eds. He is the sun, she is the moon: women in early modern Germany (Harvard University Press, 1998).
Ambraser Heldenbuch, Fol. 149.Kudrun.The early sixteenth century epic collection Ambraser Heldenbuch, one of the most important works of medieval German literature, focuses largely on female characters (with notable texts being its versions of the Nibelungenlied, the Kudrun and the poem Nibelungenklage) and defends the concept of Frauenehre (female honour) against the increasing misogyny of ...
The Overlooked Majority: German Women in the Four Zones of Occupied Germany, 1945–1949, a Comparative Study (PDF) (Thesis). The Ohio State University. [permanent dead link ] Weber, Jurgen. Germany, 1945–1990 (Central European University Press, 2004) Ziemke, Earl Frederick (1975). The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany: 1944–1946 ...
Campbell, D'Ann. Women at War With America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era (1984) online; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (2006) Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939–1945 (1985). US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes