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NICE ORIGINAL 1934 OFFICIAL NS-FRAUENWERK PHOTO BOOK
‘N.S.-FRAUENBUCH’
This scarce 6 x 8-1/2 inch, 252-page hardcover book was published by order of the NSF (Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft or National Socialist Women’s Organization) leadership and published in 1934 by J.F. Lehmanns Verlag in Munich, Germany. The Preface is written by the Leader of the N.S.Frauenschaft, GERTRUD SCHOLZ-KLINK. The book describes the purpose and goals of the Female National Socialist Movement, what they already have achieved and what they still want to achieve. Other chapters are on suggestions regarding marriage, kids, etc. in the National Socialist Reich and the importance of the purity of the Aryan blood, German arts, German tales and so on.
A very interesting book in nice condition.
The NS-Frauenschaft (NSF) was founded in October 1931 as a union of several national and national socialist women’s associations. After the NSDAP came to power in 1933 the NSF was declared the sole parteiamtliche Frauenorganisation (official Nazi Party’s Women’s Association). The NSF was the core of the Deutsches Frauenwerk (DFW) which regulated the life of German women in the Third Reich. From February 1934 to the collapse of the Third Reich the NSF’s leader was Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902 – 1999) who was also head of the DFW. She was an NSDAP member since 1930, her third husband was SS-Obergruppenführer August Heissmeyer and together they had eleven children (only the last one she had together with Heissmeyer). In order to fulfill their tasks regarding educating and leading the German women in the national socialist way the NS-Frauenschaft became an official NSDAP sub-organization in March 1935. The NSF was then structured identical to the Nazi party, divided into Gau, Kreis, Ortsgruppe, Zelle, Block and Haushaltungsgruppe. New members had to prove their political qualification in order to be accepted, i.e. they had to be members of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM or League of German Girls) or other Nazi organizations. About 2.3 million German women were organized in the NSF. At least once a month they had to attend the so called “Frauenschaftsabend”, a weekly scheduled political meeting similar to the ones held in the Hitler Youth and BDM. In these meetings the women were lectured about the national socialist ideology, racial questions and their role as wife and mother. Some were also prepared for possible leadership tasks and send to NSF Gau- and Reich leader schools. The NSF also took care of the “Reichsmütterdienst” where women could take courses in childcare, housekeeping and German tradition. The NS-Frauenschaft had only little direct influence within the NSDAP but NSF members participated in all levels of the political apparatus.
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