Even though fascism promotes equality for all, Hitler propagated the idea that the equality of women to men was a scheme developed by Jewish professors and philosophers. As Hitler was against Judaism, he obviously could not accept an idea supported by those he was trying to destroy.
When he was running for political power in 1932, Hitler spread this idea, claiming that if elected, he would take jobs from 800,000 women in 4 years, supposedly so there would be more jobs for men with families. But would it not have also made sense for Hitler to let those men's wives keep their jobs?
When he finally obtained power, Hitler took even more drastic measures, firing doctors, lawyers. and women in similar professions who were married. Hitler even banned women from the "great reward" of jury duty, because he saw women as purely emotional, incapable of rational thought.
To infuse his anti-feminist beliefs into all of Germany's infrastructure, Hitler awarded leadership of the newly created Nazi Women's league to Getrud Scholtz-Klink, a competent orator who spoke about the superiority of men over women, lending her voice to the swarm of propaganda unleashed upon the German public. Hitler rewarded Scholtz-Klink's services by also making her leader of the German Girl's League. The next stepping-stone for German girls after Hitler Youth, the League essentially brainwashed teenage girls into believing Hitler's ideals.
Naturally, when Hitler's policies caused many women to join more liberal political organizations, he set up concentration camps for women alone, showing that he would not even let his own fellow Germans have their own opinions, further securing the world's opinion of Hitler as a dictator.
Source of Information: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERwomen.htm
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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How did Hitler gain support with such a ridiculosu strategy? Wouldn't women and their husbands have objected to this reform?
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