Title: Mothers in the fatherland
Description: In the Nazi state, women had received the opportunity to create the largest women's organization in history, with the blessings of the blatantly male-chauvinist Nazi Party. Here was the nineteenth-century feminists' vision of the future in nightmare form. In this book I would bring to light the contribution to evil made by Scholtz-Klink and other women leaders, find out what they had done, what they believed they were doing, and why. I would ask how "normal" people (women, in this case) brought Nazi beliefs home in everyday thought and action. Above all, I would record the history of average people without normalizing life in Nazi society. Women's history during the Third Reich lacks the extravagant insanity of Hitler's megalomania; often it is ordinary. But there, at the grassroots of daily life, in a social world populated by women, we begin to discover how war and genocide happened by asking who made it happen. - Preface.
Subjects: Family, History, National socialism, Social conditions, Women, Families, Nazisme, Bevölkerungspolitik, Conditions sociales, Conditions économiques, Drittes Reich, Famille - Allemagne - Histoire - 20e siècle, Vrouwen, Nationaal-socialisme, Sociale situatie, Politisches Verhalten, Femmes - Allemagne - Histoire - 20e siècle, Femmes, Faschismus, Deutschland (bis 1945), Histoire, Gezin, Frauen, BMBF-Statusseminar gnd, Frau, Famille, Nationalsozialismus, Women, germany, Family, germany, Germany, social conditions, National socialism and women, Familles, Nazisme et femmes, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Women's Studies, Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945, Women and socialism
Places: Germany
Time periods: 1918-1933, 1933-1945, 20th century