Gender Roles Of Germany And America During World War II

Germany is usually seen as the society that was controlled by their government, but America’s government had the same kind of control over it’s people . Although it seems America had a lot less, it's because they enforced ideals considered today as correct . Both had almost complete control on media with propaganda, along with programs to improve people the way they wanted. The Hitler Youth has often been called indoctrinating. With the continual use of Boys State to this day and since I have gone, I can attest to how the program is run. Even though I consider Boys State a wonderful program it has a very indoctrinating atmosphere. Within a week, many of us stated that we would do almost anything for our fellow “city”(Our group of 60) members, strangers we meet for the first time that week.
The German campaign for genetic perfection pushed by propaganda depicted and produced two different views of the perfect women. One view was as a “baby factory”(Hall,1). Baby factory women were supposed to have and take care as many children as possible while also being wives who were obedient, had duty, and were disciplined(Hall,1). The other view of them was almost divine. Often called the “sustainers of the race” this made women feel that childbirth was a weapon and privilege to sustain the thousand year reich (Hall,1). The propaganda viewing women as divine were more than likely used to get women to go along with genetic perfection and have more children. By the end of the war, Germany's failing resources forced the acceptance that women should be in factories and on the battlefield (Battle of