Mothers in the fatherland

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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

Times: 1918-1933,  1933-1945,  20th century