The Position of Women in the Legal Regulations of the Third Reich

Vol.16,No.1(2008)

Abstract
This article aims to describe the position and “function” of women during the Nazi era in Germany and it also explains the relations between women and Nazi policies. Next, this article pinpoints some of the arrangements that were done in order to reach the stated goals of population and racial policies of the Third Reich. Specially, it focuses on how these policies were anchored in the Labor law and Family law. Nazis understood a woman just as a mother, a wife and “a conservator of the race”, which was supposed to deliver as many children as possible in order to provide new soldiers for future wars and for colonizing the East. The Nazi policies were placing an enormous emphasis on giving social supports and tax advantages to young Germans. The goal of these tendencies was to increase the number of marriages and newborns.

Pages:
81–86
Author biography

Jaromír Tauchen

Department of the History of the State and Law, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno

interním doktorand; soudní tlumočník
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