Were the Nazi’s aiming to produce a ‘social revolution’ in Germany and if so, did they achieve it?

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... perience esteem that they deserve in the areas for which nature has intended for them'[24]. One aim of the Nazi party was to remove women from all areas of public life, economic and political. Crew calls it, 'Emancipation form emancipation'[25], with women being encouraged to return to their own 'biological sphere'[26] the home and family. A system of marriage loans tried to draw women out of work, but the numbers of married women working actually increased between 1933-39. In fact Nazi officials and industrial managers argued that 'women's physical and mental characteristics'[27] made them ideal workers for repetitive assembly line work. 'In general, the Third Reich did little to change the status of German women'[28].

Peukert argues that in spite of the far-reaching, though not total destruction of institutions, social environments and traditions that the Nazis carried out it did not warrant the term 'revolutionary'[29] because it was unclear what they would be replaced by. The Nazis had awakened hopes they could not fulfil[30]. The German people were offered a social contract, which offered all Aryan Germans some advantage and benefit at the expense of other races. Even workers could look down on those who were slaves and victims of the Nazis, but even the superior Aryan German was not safe from Nazism policies as it sifted and divided people[31] ...

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