Scholtz Klink Speech Analysis
Jonathan Harris
Max Collins
Twentieth Century History
15 December 2014
The Nazi Party’s ideas on Women
After World War 1 feminism began to spread throughout the world. Hitler however didn’t like feminism so In 1934 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink was appointed the National Women’s leader, which gave her the responsibility to look after all the affairs of party and state relating to women and put her in charge of the National Socialists Women’s Association or NSF. In 1935 Scholtz-Klink delivered a speech at the Nazi Party Congress to the members of NSF in which she gave guidelines that helped women to,” combine work and motherhood, while encouraging them to become enthusiastic disciples of National Socialism.”1 Within the speech Scholtz-Klink reveals …show more content…
She feels that women should take pride in these jobs as they play a very important role in the future of Germany. Depending on how the women raise the future generation Germany could either be destroyed or expand. The women of the older generation also have the responsibility to inspire the younger generation to have faith in their country. The members of the German Woman’s Labor Service would also assist in Germany’s rebirth regardless of the difficulty of the work. This is shown in Scholtz-Klink’s speech when she says, “No matter whether our girls are cheerfully helping German settlers on the moors in their difficult work of building house; or…. giving help to careworn adults and joyless children.”2 The labor service would typically look for professional and university women to recruit into the labor service to provide knowledge to the nation and to help fund it as they earned more money than most. The service would have the women sent to factories to,” replace working women and mothers, enabling them to have a real vacation in order to regain their strength from their hard day-to-day
Max Collins
Twentieth Century History
15 December 2014
The Nazi Party’s ideas on Women
After World War 1 feminism began to spread throughout the world. Hitler however didn’t like feminism so In 1934 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink was appointed the National Women’s leader, which gave her the responsibility to look after all the affairs of party and state relating to women and put her in charge of the National Socialists Women’s Association or NSF. In 1935 Scholtz-Klink delivered a speech at the Nazi Party Congress to the members of NSF in which she gave guidelines that helped women to,” combine work and motherhood, while encouraging them to become enthusiastic disciples of National Socialism.”1 Within the speech Scholtz-Klink reveals …show more content…
She feels that women should take pride in these jobs as they play a very important role in the future of Germany. Depending on how the women raise the future generation Germany could either be destroyed or expand. The women of the older generation also have the responsibility to inspire the younger generation to have faith in their country. The members of the German Woman’s Labor Service would also assist in Germany’s rebirth regardless of the difficulty of the work. This is shown in Scholtz-Klink’s speech when she says, “No matter whether our girls are cheerfully helping German settlers on the moors in their difficult work of building house; or…. giving help to careworn adults and joyless children.”2 The labor service would typically look for professional and university women to recruit into the labor service to provide knowledge to the nation and to help fund it as they earned more money than most. The service would have the women sent to factories to,” replace working women and mothers, enabling them to have a real vacation in order to regain their strength from their hard day-to-day