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   From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   Here are some quotes from the account of the women's rally at the 1936   
   Nuremberg Rally, taken from the official party proceedings. The   
   speakers were Gertrud Scholz-Klink, the head of the Nazi women's   
   league, and Hitler himself, who outlines the Nazi view of the role of   
   women.   
   The enormous hall was filled two hours before the meeting began. Many   
   thousands of women were unable to enter, and gathered outside to hear   
   the proceedings over loudspeakers. The leaders of the women's labor   
   service and those of the League of German Girls took their places on   
   the platform, and the officials of the NS Women's League and the   
   German Women's Work filled the seats. To the side one could see   
   numerous representatives of German women's groups from abroad in   
   colorful and elaborate costumes. The farmers among the participants   
   also wore their beautiful traditional costumes. After a piece by the   
   Reich Symphony Orchestra, Hilgenfeldt opened the meeting and greeted   
   the participants and foreign guests in the name of the National   
   Women's Leader. The 20,000 women rose to sing "Our Fate was to be a   
   Free People."   
      
   Speech by Gertrud Scholz-Klink:   
      
   "The Soviet Union declared the legal equality of men and women in all   
   areas in a law of 18 November 1918. That meant the same right to work,   
   the same duty to support oneself, the right of control over one's own   
   body, which for the woman meant the right to abortion. The view was   
   that men and women had full freedom only when the state stayed as far   
   as possible form personal relationships. The state provided no legal   
   rights in marriage, which meant that there were only two forms of   
   marriage. One could register a marriage before a government office, or   
   one could be married without virtue of state ceremony.   
   The result was that, even when one had been married officially, the   
   individual partners had the right when they were unhappy to go to the   
   same office and, for a very small fee, dissolve the marriage. Should   
   there be children, they would be housed in collective homes, since   
   both father and mother worked and housing was in short supply, given   
   the migration from the countryside to the cities. The absence of   
   resources in such homes led of necessity to demanding money from the   
   economically stronger partner. The result was constant legal battles   
   and enormous misery for the children.   
   Simultaneously, women were increasingly absorbed in industry and the   
   military. In 1918, 24 of every 1000 miners were women. By 1932, 153 of   
   1000 were women, a number that had grown to 321 by 1935! In automobile   
   and tractor manufacturing, women are 30.4% of the work force, 63.5% of   
   the drilling industry.   
   The full equality of the sexes had the further result that girls are   
   given the same military training as boys in the communist youth   
   organization and schools. The Red Army is the only army in the world   
   in which both men and women are trained as soldiers and officers to   
   wage aggressive wars...   
   We Germans had 14 years under an attempt to impose Bolshevist   
   principles on us. The German woman took her place alongside the German   
   man when she realized that a struggle was going on between God's order   
   for earthly affairs and universal apostles of humanity who wanted to   
   replace these eternal laws. It was a battle between good and evil.   
   Good and evil are equally strong forces in life. They find visible   
   form in National Socialism and Bolshevism. National Socialism is good   
   become visible for we Germans. It respects the earth from which our   
   people have grown. Bolshevism is absolute evil because it is a   
   universal approach that rejects the eternal laws of nature. "Good" and   
   "evil" have never stood in such stark contrast before all the world as   
   they do today in these two forces...   
   Our work is to spread this idea. It is nothing other than a daily   
   struggle between these two forces. It is not ultimately a battle of   
   means or of money, that is of perishable things, rather it is ennobled   
   by the spirit in whose service we stand: In the battle between good   
   and evil, we are the obedient servants of the good."   
   Speech by Adolf Hitler:   
   Those abroad may say 'That is fine for the men! But your women cannot   
   be optimistic. They are oppressed and dominated and enslaved. You give   
   them no freedom of equality." We answer: What you see as a yoke others   
   see as a blessing. What is heaven to one is hell for another...   
   As long as we have sound men-and we National Socialists will see to   
   that-there will be no women throwing hand grenades in Germany, no   
   women sharp-shooters. That is not equality for women, rather their   
   debasement...   
   Women have boundless opportunities to work. For us the woman has   
   always been the loyal companion of the man in work and life. People   
   often tell me: You want to drive women out of the professions. No, I   
   only want to make it possible for her to found her own family and to   
   have children, for that is how she can best serve our people!...   
   If a woman jurist does the best possible work, but next to her lives a   
   woman who has given birth to five, six or seven healthy children who   
   are well educated, I would say the following: From the standpoint of   
   the eternal values of our people, the woman who has borne and raised   
   children has done more, given more, accomplished more for the future   
   of our people!...   
   Real leadership has the duty to enable every man and woman to fulfill   
   their dreams, or at least to make it easier for them to do so. We seek   
   this goal through laws that encourage the healthy education of   
   children. But we have done more than simply pass laws. We are   
   educating for German women and girls a manly youth, the men of   
   tomorrow!"   
   "I believe we have found the right way to educate a healthy youth. Let   
   me say this to all the literary know-it-alls and philosophers of   
   equality: (laughter) Do not deceive yourselves! There are two separate   
   arenas in the life of a nation": that of men and that of women. Nature   
   has rightly ordained that men head the family and are burdened with   
   the task of protecting their people, the community. The world of the   
   woman, when she is fortunate, is her family, her husband, her   
   children, her home. From there she can see the whole. The two arenas   
   together join to form a community that enables a people to survive. We   
   want to build a common world of both sexes in which each sees its own   
   tasks, tasks that it alone can do and therefore can and must do   
   alone."   
   "When I see this wonderful growing youth, my work becomes easy, I   
   overcome every weakness. Then I know why I do everything. It is not to   
   build some miserable business that will perish, rather this work is   
   for something lasting and eternal. A vital part of this future is the   
   German girl, the German woman, the German woman, and thus we meet the   
   girl, the woman, the mother."   
   "I do not measure the success of our work by our roads. I do not   
   measure it by our new factories, or our new bridges, or the new   
      
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