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Michael CarricoMichael Carrico
Updated:Apr 23, 2026
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Women in Nazi Germany: Policy and Everyday Life (1933–1945)

Women in Nazi Germany: Policy and Everyday Life (1933–1945)

  1. Law restores civil service; purges begin

    Labels: Law for, Civil Service

  2. School and university admissions restricted by quotas

    Labels: Law against, Universities

  3. Marriage loans incentivize women leaving paid work

    Labels: Marriage Loan, Ehestandsdarlehen

  4. Women’s youth groups absorbed into the BDM

    Labels: League of, BDM

  5. Gertrud Scholtz-Klink appointed Reich women’s leader

    Labels: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, NS-Frauenschaft

  6. Reich Labour Service law obliges both sexes

    Labels: Reich Labour, RAD

  7. Nuremberg Laws regulate intimacy and domestic employment

    Labels: Nuremberg Laws, Racial Policy

  8. Lebensborn founded to promote “racially valuable” births

    Labels: Lebensborn, SS

  9. Hitler Youth Law makes BDM participation compulsory

    Labels: Hitler Youth, BDM

  10. Pflichtjahr introduced for unmarried women under 25

    Labels: Pflichtjahr, Compulsory Year

  11. Mother’s Cross established to reward large families

    Labels: Mother's Cross, Pronatalism

  12. Mother’s Cross first awarded on Mother’s Day

    Labels: Mother's Day, Mother's Cross

  13. Führer decrees expand women’s labor conscription

    Labels: F hrer, Women Conscription

  14. Allied Control Council bans Nazi organizations

    Labels: Allied Control, Denazification