Were Women Treated Unjustly In Nazi Germany
Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of Sources
This historical investigation is one that will explore the question: To what extent were women treated unjustly in Nazi Germany? Looking at women and their roles and how they were discriminated against is going to be the main focus of this investigation throughout the years the Nazi party had control of Germany, Primarily from 1934 onwards.
To aid me in my investigation I have identified two very valuable sources to which I will use to aid me in this research on the role of women. The first source which I am going to be looking into and evaluating in depth is Terry Morris’ “Flagship History: Europe 1870-1991”, a British History book that came out in 2004. The book contains a very useful extract …show more content…
Women had a specific role in Nazi Germany and this role didn’t go far beyond the realms of being good mothers and good housewives who were expected to stay at home and do the ‘female’ roles of things such as cooking, cleaning, taking care of children etc. so that their husbands could work and the family continue to preserve these traditional German values. Even young girls were taught in school that they should be good mothers and housewives and stay at home and do the cooking and the cleaning whilst boys were taught to be the men of the house. Girls were not encouraged to continue education like men but rather to settle down and have as many children as possible. Hitler even compares the act of bringing up a child to the battle of existence of people (Baynes, Norman. 1942), and he believes the responsibility of bringing up a child should be left almost entirely to women. “A woman’s place was in the home looking after her husband and children,” (Years of Weimar & the Third Reich, Evans & Jenkins, 1999) shows us how limited women’s lives were and and how little responsibilities they were allowed, as does the quote, “Women were excluded from key positions in Nazi politics; there was not a single female Nazi deputy in the Reichstag and a party regulation of 1921 excluded women from all senior positions” (Baynes, Norman. …show more content…
Comparing evidence that I have found and retrieved from a number of different sources and then formatting these all into one place and comparing and contrasting them I feel has been very beneficial and helped me expand my skills. Even just the reading of all these sources in itself has been tremendously interesting and has provided me with a lot of information that I otherwise would not have known, it has really pushed me to expand how I view women in Nazi Germany and definitely helped me to better allow and consider different viewpoints beyond my own.
Overall, I feel this investigation has provided me with a lot of valuable insight into all the challenges that faced women in Nazi Germany and how their roles changed over time, it has allowed me to push myself as a historians and to formulate more valid and well informed opinions.
Bibliography
Baynes, Norman. 1942. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler. Vol 1. Oxford University Press.
Morris, Terry, ed. 2008. Europe 1870-1991. Second edition. Collins.
Years of Weimar & the Third Reich, Evans & Jenkins, 1999.
Birks, Wayne, Revision for history GCSE Modern World History
This historical investigation is one that will explore the question: To what extent were women treated unjustly in Nazi Germany? Looking at women and their roles and how they were discriminated against is going to be the main focus of this investigation throughout the years the Nazi party had control of Germany, Primarily from 1934 onwards.
To aid me in my investigation I have identified two very valuable sources to which I will use to aid me in this research on the role of women. The first source which I am going to be looking into and evaluating in depth is Terry Morris’ “Flagship History: Europe 1870-1991”, a British History book that came out in 2004. The book contains a very useful extract …show more content…
Women had a specific role in Nazi Germany and this role didn’t go far beyond the realms of being good mothers and good housewives who were expected to stay at home and do the ‘female’ roles of things such as cooking, cleaning, taking care of children etc. so that their husbands could work and the family continue to preserve these traditional German values. Even young girls were taught in school that they should be good mothers and housewives and stay at home and do the cooking and the cleaning whilst boys were taught to be the men of the house. Girls were not encouraged to continue education like men but rather to settle down and have as many children as possible. Hitler even compares the act of bringing up a child to the battle of existence of people (Baynes, Norman. 1942), and he believes the responsibility of bringing up a child should be left almost entirely to women. “A woman’s place was in the home looking after her husband and children,” (Years of Weimar & the Third Reich, Evans & Jenkins, 1999) shows us how limited women’s lives were and and how little responsibilities they were allowed, as does the quote, “Women were excluded from key positions in Nazi politics; there was not a single female Nazi deputy in the Reichstag and a party regulation of 1921 excluded women from all senior positions” (Baynes, Norman. …show more content…
Comparing evidence that I have found and retrieved from a number of different sources and then formatting these all into one place and comparing and contrasting them I feel has been very beneficial and helped me expand my skills. Even just the reading of all these sources in itself has been tremendously interesting and has provided me with a lot of information that I otherwise would not have known, it has really pushed me to expand how I view women in Nazi Germany and definitely helped me to better allow and consider different viewpoints beyond my own.
Overall, I feel this investigation has provided me with a lot of valuable insight into all the challenges that faced women in Nazi Germany and how their roles changed over time, it has allowed me to push myself as a historians and to formulate more valid and well informed opinions.
Bibliography
Baynes, Norman. 1942. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler. Vol 1. Oxford University Press.
Morris, Terry, ed. 2008. Europe 1870-1991. Second edition. Collins.
Years of Weimar & the Third Reich, Evans & Jenkins, 1999.
Birks, Wayne, Revision for history GCSE Modern World History