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The historiography of "ordinary" German women in Nazi Germany has changed significantly over time; studies done just after World War II tended to see them as additional victims of Nazi oppression. However, during the late 20th century, historians began to argue that German women were able to influence the course of the regime and even the war.
Sophia Magdalena Scholl [a] (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. [1] [2] She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother, Hans.
Nazi Party. The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens[ 1] ( German: Bund Deutscher Mädel, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only legal female youth organization in Nazi Germany . At first, the League consisted of two sections: the Jungmädelbund ("Young Girls ...
As Allied troops entered and occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the subsequent occupation of Germany by soldiers from all advancing Allied armies, although a majority of scholars agree that the records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops. [1]
The National Socialist Women's League ( German: Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, abbreviated NS-Frauenschaft) was the women's wing of the Nazi Party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and Nazi women's associations, such as the German Women's Order ( German: Deutscher Frauenorden, DFO) which had been founded ...
Sexual violence during the Holocaust. During World War II, some Jewish men and women in concentration camps faced sexual violence, due to wartime discrimination, antisemitism, and genocidal conditions among other reasons. [ 1] This discrimination happened both inside concentration camps run by Adolf Hitler ’s Nazi regime and also outside of ...
Women in Nazi Germany were subject to doctrines of the Nazi Party promoting exclusion of women from the political world. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] While the Nazi party decreed that "women could be admitted to neither the Party executive nor to the Administrative Committee", [ 81 ] this did not prevent numerous women from becoming party members.
The Reich Bride Schools ( German: Reichsbräuteschule) were institutions established in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. They were created to train young women to be "perfect Nazi brides", [ 1] indoctrinated in Nazi ideology and educated in housekeeping skills. The fiancées of prominent SS members and senior Nazi Party officials (and later a ...