As a result of the degrading
nature of the Nazi view
towards women, a social
revolution was undertaken to
redefine the role of Women in
Germany.
Was there a social
revolution in Nazi
Germany?
Ralf Dahrendorf (Historian)
David Shoebaum (Historian)
Nota:
Towards the bottom of the no side because some of his quotes can be used to support either side of this arguement
Mary Fulbrook (Historian)
Nota:
“The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s… The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey.”
Ian Kershaw (Historian)
Nota:
“Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch… Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler’s image and reputation at this time – so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all – was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.”
Paul Madden (Historian)
Nota:
“Since the inception of the Nazi Party, social scientists have attempted to define its nature in terms of its membership. Scholars have described the party variously as a class movement, a regional movement, an anti-urban revolt against modernity, a generational revolt, even as a collection of losers, cut-throats and criminals.”
Adolf Hitler
Nota:
“If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.”
Nazi fuhrer
The role of Women in
Germany post WW1 was
drastically different to the
role of Women during the
Nazi era
The gender policies
imposed by the Nazis
had a negative impact on
German Society
Were the changes to the
role of women in Nazi
Germany truly
revolutionary or were
they reformist
Painting - The Family by Wolf Wilrich
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
Textbook, pg 339 -341
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Figure 11.36
Source 11.17 (Textbook pg. 340)
A letter to Hitler from several women, published in Leipzig newspaper in 1934.
Leila J. Rupp
Nota:
A majority of historians
have ignored the role of Women, when they research and discuss Nazi Germany.
Josef Goebbels
Nota:
Source 11.16 (Textbook pg. 340)
Josef Goebbels speaking in 1929
Leila J. Rupp
Textbook, pg.339
Aryan Doctor
Nota:
Source 11.18 (Textbook pg.340)
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