NS-Frauen-Warte

The NS-Frauen-Warte was the Nazi magazine for women.[1] Put out by the NS-Frauenschaft, it had the status of the only party approved magazine for women[2] and served propaganda purposes, particularly supporting the role of housewife and mother as exemplary.[3]

History and profile

NS-Frauen-Warte was first published in 1934.[4] The magazine was published biweekly[4][5] and had articles on a wide range of topics of interest to women and included sewing patterns.[6]

Its articles included such topics as the role of women in the Nazi state, Germanization efforts in Poland, the education of youth, the importance of play for children, claims that Great Britain was responsible for the war, and the Bolshevist threat with the need to annihilate the Soviet Regime.[7] It defended anti-intellectualism,[8] highlighted the achievements of National Socialist women and how the system had benefited females,[9] and discussed bridal schools.[10] Poetry exulted in a child as a form of immortality.[11] During wartime it urged women to have children,[12][13] to join in the war effort either in employment or in Frauenschaft from the very beginning,[14] and to greater efforts in total war.[15] Its April 1940 cover showed a peasant woman plowing before a factory, with a soldier's face looming overhead.[16] It depicted accounts of women as nurses during the war, although chiefly as a vehicle for anti-Bolshevist propaganda.[17]

It was predominately a woman's magazine despite containing propaganda; this contrasts sharply with Das deutsche Mädel, which lay emphasis on the strong and active German woman.[18] The 1939 circulation of the magazine was 1.9 million copies.[4] The magazine ceased publication in 1945.[4]

The University of Heidelberg digitized the issues between 1941 and 1945 of the magazine.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The NS Frauen Warte"
  2. ↑ "German History". GHDI. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "NS-Frauenwarte: Paper of the National Socialist Women's League"
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "German Propaganda Archive". Calvin. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Sarah Rainey (16 August 2013). "Nazi Bride Schools: 'These girls were the nucleus of the Reich’". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "May 1937 - Frauen Warte"
  7. ↑ "Frauen Warte"
  8. ↑ "The Spirit of Race"
  9. ↑ "Mothers’ Day 1940"
  10. ↑ "The Reich School for Brides"
  11. ↑ "My Boy"
  12. ↑ "Ready to Die Ready to Live"
  13. ↑ "Life Must Win"
  14. ↑ Leila J. Rupp, Mobilizing Women for War, p 106, ISBN 9780691046495
  15. ↑ "Strength from Love and Faith"
  16. ↑ Leila J. Rupp, Mobilizing Women for War, p 129, ISBN 9780691046495
  17. ↑ "Comrade Nurse"
  18. ↑ Leila J. Rupp, Mobilizing Women for War, p 45, ISBN 9780691046495

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