Role of Women in the Third Reich

Jacob Mackedanz

Role of women in Germany

The third rich in Germany made a call out for the role of women something unique that I haven’t seen before other than in what Hitler’s crazy mind was thinking. He said that women in the Third Reich were a vital piece of history and to make the Third Reich supreme the needed to be “racially pure”. The women that Hitler was looking for was the average white women with no other ethnicities other than them of Caucasian decent. That would be able to produce as many “Aryan” children as possible. I found this unique because it shows that Hitler really did have a push for a supreme race which he took to the extremes of telling the white women but only if they were 100 percent Caucasian to produce as many babies as possible. In 1936 this was pushed to the extremes of even dedicating a specific program to this. It was carried out by the SS and was call the Lebensborn or Fountain of life. This was an extension to the former marriage order of 1932. It required that all SS members must try and conceive at least 4 children in or out of wedlock. They needed to provided birth documents and financial support to prove that they were able to make Lebensborn. The program also recruited adopted parents to help raise the children the “proper way” if they were unable to conceive themselves. In the end the program was never really pushed upon the public or the SS.

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