Women in Nazi Germany
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In Nazi Germany, women were subject to doctrines of Nazism by the Nazi Party, which promoted exclusion of women from the political and academic life of Germany as well as its executive body and execut
Opening of exposition Die Frau, Frauenleben und -wirken in Familie, Haus und Beruf (Women: the life of women, their role in the family, at home and at work) at the Kaiserdamm, March 18, 1933, with Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
Membership badge of the Deutsches Frauenwerk, a Nazi association for women founded in October 1933
Certificate of the Cross of Honour of the German Mother during World War II
German woman secretary, in 1938
Hanna Reitsch
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Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his suicide in the Führerbunker in April 1945. Following her capture, she provided
Women in Nazi Germany
…through their proximity to Adolf Hitler, such as Magda Goebbels, or by excelling in particular fields, such as filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl or aviator Hanna Reitsch. Many restrictions on women were lifted once wartime necessity required policy changes later in the regime. The historiography of "ordinary" German…
Reitsch in 1941
Reitsch in 1936 at Wasserkuppe
Hitler awards Reitsch the Iron Cross 2nd Class in March 1941
A Fieseler Fi 156 Storch similar to the one Reitsch landed in the Tiergarten during the Battle of Berlin