Hitler's Housewives: German Women on the Home Front

The meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party cowed the masses into a sense of false utopia.During Hitler’s 1932 election campaign over half those who voted for Hitler were women.Germany’s women had witnessed the anarchy of the post-First World War years, and the chaos brought about by the rival political gangs brawling on their streets.When Hitler came to power there was at last a ray of hope that this man of the people would restore not only political stability to Germany but prosperity to its people. As reforms were set in place, Hitler encouraged women to step aside from their jobs and allow men to take their place.As the guardian of the home, the women of Hitler’s Germany were pinned as the very foundation for a future thousand-year Reich.Not every female in Nazi Germany readily embraced the principle of living in a society where two distinct worlds existed, however with the outbreak of the Second World War, Germany’s women would soon find themselves on the frontline. Ultim