Women in Nazi GER - birth rates

5 areas Nazis focused on for women

-Increased births

-Improved welfare

-Reduced unemployment

-Reduced education

-Women’s organisations 

Nazi key measures to increase birth rate (4)

-1,000 RM marriage loan (if had license saying racially fit)

-Mother’s cross (gold for 8 or more kids)

-Lebensborn programme 1936

-Income tax reduced w/ no.of kids: 6 = no income tax

When did a mother get the gold Mother’s cross?

8 or more kids

How much was the marriage loan?

1,000 RM

How many kids meant the family paid no income tax at all?

6

When was the Lebensborn programme started?

1936

Which programme aimed at increasing birth rates started in 1936?

Lebensborn

What is Lebensborn programme 1936?

Racially fit men, usually SS, encouraged to mate with as many racially pure women as possible

Children adopted out to suitable GER couples who couldn’t conceive 

Nazi success of increased birth rates

Marriages:-

1933: 9.7/1,000

1939: 11.1/1,000

Births:

1933: 14.7/10,000

1939: 20.3/10,000

11,000 children born from Lebensborn end of Nazi regime

How many born from Lebensborn by end of Nazi regime? 

11,000

By when were 11,000 kids born from Lebensborn?

End of Nazi regime

Why did Nazis have this attitude to women?

Coz of their ideology of traditionalism, volksgemeinschaft etc

What is Volksgemeinschaft?

Nazi ideology

Means ‘National community’

Limitations of Nazi birth rate measures

Divorce rate rose to 38.3/10,000 1939

Birth rate still lower than Weimar golden years birth rate

Eugenics = less kids

Birth rate increase may just be due to improving economy

What could the rising Nazi birth rate be attributed to?

Improving economy

What did Nazi divorce rate rise to?

38.3/10,000