Women's lives should revolve around church, children and kitchen, Girls were taught not to diet or smoke as it would affect their fertility, Female doctors and lawyers had to give up their jobs to stay at home and have children, Women expected to dress flat shoes, hair in plaits or a bun. Not wear make up, , Marriage loans given to women who gave up their careers and had 4 children, The Nazis wanted a high birth rate. By 1939 3 million women had got medals for having 4 or more children, Women were not allowed to be judges, Education focused on preparing girls for a life of motherhood, Lebensborn programme let single women be impregnated by SS soldiers , Motherhood Cross, large families had tax incentives, cheap theatre tickets and ability to jump queues, University places were limited to 10% for women, Women were excluded from working as doctors, judges and lawyers but were not counted as unemployed, Women needed to be employed in weapons factories due to shortage of workers,

Role Women in Nazi Germany

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