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 * Women, and Women's Rights in Nazi Germany:**

The Nazi government opposed women's social and economic emancipation, and the feminist movement, as they claimed that it was "Jewish-led" and was bad for the society, both women and men. The regime supposed a patriarchal society, in which women would recognize that the "world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home". Hitler therefore claimed that women who were taking jobs usually assigned to men during the Great Depression was bad economically because women were paid less than men (one third less). However, he never worked to raise women's wages as to avoid such a scenario; he called for women to stay at home and take care of the house. The Nazi regime also called for women to be actively supportive of the state. In 1933, Hitler appointed Gertrud Scholtz-Klink as the Reich Women's Leader, who instructed women that their primary role in society was to bear children and obey their husbands, hence, "the mission of the woman is to minister in the home and in her profession to the needs of life from the first to last moment of man's existence. This even applied to Aryan women who were married to Jewish men. The regime discouraged women from attending secondary schools, universities and colleges. The number of women allowed to enroll in universities dropped drastically during the Nazi regime (by over half). However, as men were being enrolled into the army,, by 1944, women made up half of the enrollment in the education system, Organizations were also made for the indoctrination of Nazi values to women. For example, the Jungmadl (young girls) section of the Hitler Youth, and the Bund Deutsher Madel (German Girl's League).

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