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Author Stephenson, Jill.

Title The Nazi Organisation of women / Jill Stephenson
Published London : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Library Editions. Women's History ; v. 34
Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 34.
Contents 1. Evolution and creation -- 2. Centralisation and conflicts of interest -- 3. Stabilising the NSF with Gertrud Scholtz-Klink -- 4. The women's organisations in the Third Reich -- 5. Nazi women at war
Summary The Nazi's were implacably opposed to feminism and women's independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics. Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers', and their task was to support their fighting menfolk by providing food and making and mending uniforms and flags. The miscellany of women's organisations was dissolved and reunified by Gregor Strasser in 1931, and in 1934 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink became an overall leader of the Nazi Women's Grou
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index
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Subject Women -- Germany -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Politics and government
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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