Treatment of Women in Nazi Germany

Using the green book or the reading that is in your shared file, "Women in Nazi Germany, " complete the focus task on page 211 (2nd page) that involves an assessment of the Nazis treatment of women.

"Nazi policy for women was confused"- This statement is correct to an extent. Yes the policy for women was confusing because the women were only seen as supporting her husband, she wore no trousers, and had no job except to keep the family in order and have babies. But, in the late 1930's the Nazis had to do an about turn as they suddenly needed more women workers because the supply of unemployed men was drying up. Women had to work and also have the responsibility of taking care of a family. I agree with this statement only to an extent because there were actual rules which made the policy for women not confusing but it got confusing when there was a turn about because there weren't enough workers.

"Nazi policy for women was a failure"- I completely agree with this statement because the Nazis tried to make the women only have house jobs and not real jobs making it so only men could work. There was a significant increase of population because women were encouraged to have up to 8 children! Since there was such an increase in population people needed more jobs and since only men had the jobs, there weren't enough. Women eventually had to work because there needed to be supplies to buy.