Women of the Third Reich
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (Kids, Kitchen, Church)
The Ideology created by Hitler which outlined the so-called Nazi ideal of femininity: a sporty woman, with Nordic blonde hair, always cheerful, surrounded by as many children as possible. The traditional Nazi slogan which was used for women was: “Kinder, Kuche, Kirche” (children, kitchen, church) was quickly embraced by women, even though they also claimed, “Krankenhäuser und Kultur” (hospitals and culture).
Women within the Nazi Party
Even in the early 1920s, says Anna Maria Sigmund in Les femmes du III Reich, women had appeared within the Nazi Party on various occasions. The manifest misogyny of men led them to create their own structures, a kind of movement parallel to that of men. Coquettish and sporty, like Eva Braun, divorced bourgeois, like Magda Goebbels, adventurous aristocrats like Carin, Göring’s first wife, activists and propagandists like Gertrud Scholz, they played, psychologically speaking, an essential role not only in the lives of husbands but also in the establishment of the Third Reich.
