Source A ‘Mother’s Day’ celebrations in Berlin in 1941. Girls from the League of German Maidens present mothers with flowers for having been awarded the ‘Mother’s Cross’
On 18 March 1933, 6 weeks after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the Nazi Party opened an exhibition in Berlin which outlined its envisaged role for women in the Third Reich. During the previous decade, the democratic Weimar Republic had led the way in the emancipation of women in Europe — the ‘new woman’ of Weimar Germany enjoyed equal suffrage from 1918, greater opportunities in education, the workplace and politics, and more independence in wider society.
AQA Germany, 1890–1945: democracy and dictatorship
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