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The desire to abolish 1920s fashion in Nazi Germany was consistent with Nazi propaganda which was insistent on limiting women to the private sphere as housewives and mother figures. [ 41 ] While the Nazi government sought to create a maternal ideal for the Aryan woman, they also sought financial gain from the textile industry. [ 42 ]
The NS-Frauen-Warte, aimed at women, included such topics as the role of women in the Nazi state. [83] Despite its propaganda elements, it was predominantly a women's magazine. [ 84 ] It defended anti-intellectualism , [ 85 ] urged women to have children, even in wartime, [ 86 ] [ 87 ] put forth what the Nazis had done for women, [ 88 ...
The third argument used in Nazi motherhood propaganda created an ideal Nazi woman, which implicitly encouraged women to always be mothers in one way or another. The first way that this ideal was created was through the construction of spiritual motherhood in Nazi propaganda.
The NS-Frauen-Warte ("National Socialist Women's Monitor") was the Nazi magazine for women. [1] Put out by the NS-Frauenschaft, it had the status of the only party approved magazine for women [2] and served propaganda purposes, particularly supporting the role of housewife and mother as exemplary.
In a September 1934 speech to the National Socialist Women's Organization, Hitler argued that for the German woman her "world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home", [17] a policy which was reinforced by the stress on "Kinder" and "Küche" in propaganda, and the bestowing of the Cross of Honor of the German Mother on women ...
Riefenstahl became one of the few women in Germany to direct a film during the Weimar era when, in 1932, she decided to try directing with her own film, The Blue Light. [5] In the latter half of the 1930s, she directed the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. The ...
The importance of self-sacrifice for Germany was heavily emphasized; a Jewish woman, reflecting on her longing to join the League of German Girls, concluded that it had been the admonishment for self-sacrifice that had drawn her most. [26] Members were also taught the Nazi Party's racial ideas. [27]
During the war, effort was made by Nazi propaganda to motivate Germans to propagate Volkstum ("racial consciousness"). Pamphlets were issued encouraging German women to prevent sexual relations with foreign workers brought to Germany and to view them as a danger to their "blood" (i.e. racial purity). [36]