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26. Mai 2020 · With François Montagut, Anne Nelson, Frauke Geyken, Johannes Tuchel. Coming from all social strata, a priory model citizens of the Third Reich, one thing unites these women: hatred against the Hitler regime and the desire to end the Führer.
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- Documentary, History
- Barbara Necek
- 2020-05-26
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Women were central to Adolf Hitler’s plan to create an ideal “Aryan” community (Volksgemeinschaft). Praising German women as “our most loyal, fanatical fellow-combatants,” Hitler valued women for both their activism in the Nazi movement and their biological power as generators of the race. In Nazi thinking, a larger, racially purer population would...
The National Socialist Women's Union and German Women's Agency used Nazi propaganda to encourage women to focus on their roles as wives and mothers. Besides increasing the population, the regime also sought to enhance its "racial purity" through "species upgrading," notably by promulgating laws prohibiting marriage between "Aryans" and "non-Aryans"...
Gearing up for the war and waging it obliged Nazi leaders to mobilize female workers. Young women provided free labor in annual summer camps, and in 1939 all single women had to report for compulsory labor service in war-related industries. By war’s end, the number of female auxiliaries in the German armed forces approached 500,000, including some ...
Aside from the many women who aided in implementing Nazi policies and driving the war effort were those who actively opposed the regime or were persecuted by the party for being outside the boundaries of what was socially acceptable. Included were women considered to be political opponents for their association with communism who were then sent to ...
The entire population of German women (almost forty million in 1939) cannot be considered a victim group. One-third of the female population, thirteen million women, were actively engaged in a Nazi Party organisation, and female membership in the Nazi Party increased steadily until the end of the war. Just as the agency of women in ...
In 1932, the year before Hitler’s rise to power, just under 44,000 German women applied to terminate a pregnancy and 34,698 of these were approved. Between 1935 and 1940 there were only 14,333 applications and 9,701 approvals. Conversely, doctors would approve abortions – and indeed, even encourage them – if the patient happened to be non-Aryan. In November 1938 a Nazi-run state court ...
Who were these women? Why did they decide to oppose the regime, putting themselves and their families at risk? What was their background? This documentary aims to unveil the still widely unknown story of these female German resistance fighters.
Differing in motivations and means, these women undercut Nazi hegemony, countering the ideology and policies of National Socialism in both the public and private spheres. 6. This essay offers an account of women’s resistance efforts in Nazi Germany by establishing a viable definition of resistance.
Three women who were part of a quiet resistance against the Nazis in Berlin. In the heart of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, ordinary people worked tirelessly and at great risk to themselves to...
