1. What do these images tell us about the role of women under the Nazis?
 starter activity
What do these images tell us about the role of women under the Nazis?

2. Did Nazis value women?  LOs
 Key words: Volksgemeinschaft, Third Reich
Did Nazis value women?
 LOs
TBAT to describe at least 3 key roles for women during the Third Reich
To assess how Nazi attitudes to women changed over time

3. What’s so shocking about this planned Nazi policy from 1943
What’s so shocking about this planned Nazi policy from 1943?  How different are these attitudes from before the party came to power?
“All single and married women up to the age of 35, who do not already have four children, must have four children. The fathers should be racially pure German men. It does not matter if these men are married or not. Any family that already has children must set the husband free for this action.”

4.  Your task
Read p.64-5 and note down the ways in which women were encouraged to help the regime. Include the following: KKK; professions & careers; fashion; financial support; Lebensborn
 Produce your own advert for the ideal female German partner
 Produce a factoid on Gertrude Scholtz-Klink, Head of Nazi Women’s Bureau

5. Role of women
Didn’t work – women were encouraged or forced to leave their jobs, e.g. all women doctors sacked
Good housewives – used leftovers, prepared ‘Eintopf’ meal
Good mothers – healthy, promoted traditional family values, ‘Honour Cross of German Mothers’
Dressed in traditional German clothes
Brought up children to worship Führer & join Hitler Youth
Kinder, Kirche, Kuche

6. What would children in Nazi schools have been taught?

8. A Nazi propaganda poster from 1937
A Nazi propaganda poster from IN what ways does this poster support Nazi attitudes towards women? Annotate your copy of this image.
How useful is this poster in understanding Nazi attitudes towards women during the Third Reich?

9.  Your task
Study the information from the SHP textbook. Identify as many contradictions in Nazi policy towards women as you can.
 Study the charts in Source 10. How successful were Nazi policies towards women between 1933 and 1939?

10.  Exam practice
Your teacher will give you a copy of 4 sources. Annotate the sources accordingly:
What do sources A & B suggest about Nazi attitudes to women?
What different view is suggested by Sources C&D
Why are Sources A& B different from Source C&D?

11. Discusses who produced the sources, when they were produced and why
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Simple differences based on when the sources were produced and or who produced them
Explains why the sources are different using some details from the sources and own knowledge
Discusses who produced the sources, when they were produced and why
Well structured answer, which focuses on the issue of ‘why’ they are different
Detailed examples (including technical vocabulary) from the sources and own knowledge are used to illustrate points
All sources are used and the student fully explains who produced them, when and why

12.  Plenary
Explain the following: KKK; professions & careers; fashion; financial support; Lebensborn
What were Nazi attitudes to women like at these times:
1932
1943
Why did they change?
Do you think attitudes towards young people also changed?

13.  Homework
How did the Nazis try to control the lives of women and children. It should be at least 1 side of A4 in total. Include references to the following:
Policies
Propaganda
Organisations like the German Maidens League
Laws directed at women and families