European women: a documentary history 1789-1945

After the Nazi Party seized power in 1933, according to historians Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout, one of the first priorities was to organize women by declaring that, “All women’s organizations were ordered to accept Nazi leadership or disband.” Most secular women’s organizations had dissolved themselves or were abolished in 1933 and integrated under the German Women’s Enterprise, which consisted of a female membership of 2.3 million. Scholtz-Klink’s ideal Aryan image and her role as a mother to eleven children helped her and the Nazi Regime to emphasize that the primary role of German women was motherhood.