Speech to the National Socialist Article Review

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Because the economic situation in post-World-War I Germany made it necessary for many women to work outside of the home, Scholt-Klink hoped to provide at least some well-deserved respite for some of them by assigning members of her group to fill in for them temporarily at factories and plants to enable them to enjoy a vacation and replenish their spirit of happiness.

4. The Difference between Scholtz-Klink's Ideas and Past Women's Movement

The most important difference between Scholt-Klink's ideas and past women's movements at the time was that Scholt-Klink's movement was relatively unconcerned with the welfare of individual women or with the progress of women as a group. Those were the aims of other contemporary and earlier women's movements, especially in relation to suffrage. Women's movements had previously almost always sought to equalize the rights of women in society and to establish the same kinds of rights for women as those already enjoyed by men.

Instead of focusing on the welfare of individual women or on achieving the equality of women and of women's rights in German society, Scholt-Klink argued that women had a duty to contribute their lives and their greatest energies to the development of the nation.

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In many ways, the methods of contributing to the nation advanced by Scholt-Klink were antithetical to the goals of traditional women's movements. Scholt-Klink promoted the idea that women were primarily responsible for assisting their husbands and of playing a supportive role for one another that allowed other women to do the same. Ultimately, Scholt-Klink's ideas were as anti-woman as the entire Nazi ideology was anti-individualistic because only the welfare of state….....

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