Women in Nazi Germany

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.

What was the experience of women in Nazi Germany in peacetime and during the Second World War?

Through a consideration of race, reproduction and sexuality, employment patterns and opportunities, education and socialization, and the wartime fate of both favoured ''Aryan'' women and the Nazi regime''s designated ''racial enemies'' and its opponents, this history challenges both myths which have persisted and theories which have recently dominated debate about this subject.

Concluding with a discussion of the ''perpetrators and victims'' debate, the salience of ''class'' in Nazi Germany and the extent to which Nazism provided new opportunities for women, the text is supported by a Documents Section which includes many sources previously unpublished in English.

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