Hitler said ‘In my state mother is the most important citizen’. Explain.

In 1933, Hitler said: “In my state, the mother is the most important citizen.” But the actions show that it is not true. It is the women who are not given equal rights as compared to men. In Nazi Germany, women were not treated equally to the men. It was taught that if become the part of the democratic struggle, it will destroy the society. Girls were taught to become good mothers and remain purity in the race and bear racially desirable children. If they were not able to do this, they were punished and not favoured in society. The women who bore racially desirable children were even awarded; get concessions in movie tickets and railway fares, etc. They also rewarded women with the bronze, silver and gold depending on the number of children produced by the women.

If they didn’t follow these rules they were punished. Those who maintained relationships with the Jews, Poles and Russians were made to walk in the town with shaved heads, blackened faces and placards hanging around their neck mentioning “I have sullied the honour of the nation.” For such criminal offences, women were even sent to the jail and had to leave their family and children.