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Women in Nazi Germany

Women in Nazi Germany

Jill Stephenson

Oct 2001, Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN13: 9780582418363
ISBN10: 0582418364
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From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler’s Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away from the stereotypes to provide a more complete picture of how they experienced Nazism in peacetime and at war. What was the status and role of women in pre-Nazi Germany and how did different groups of women respond to the Nazi project in practice? Jill Stephenson looks at the social, cultural and economic organisation of women’s lives under Nazism, and assesses opposing claims that German women were either victims or villains of National Socialism.

Part One: Introduction
1. German women and national socialism
Part Two: Women in the racial state
2. Reproduction, family, sexuality
3. Women at work
4. Education, socialization, organization
5. The crisis of war
6. Opponents, perpetrators
Part Three: Assessment
7. Three issues: class, empowerment and international comparisons
Part Four: Documents

  • Thematic discussion within a chronological framework – reader can follow developments more easily.
  • Goes beyond the stereotype to present more authentic and comprehensive portrait.
  • Supported by selection of contemporary documents including official papers, memoirs, and articles from Nazi women’s magazines.
  • Illustrated with a plate section.

Jill Stephenson is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh.

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