The ''NS-Frauen-Warte'' ("National Socialist Women's Monitor") was the

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for women. Put out by the

NS-Frauenschaft The National Socialist Women's League (german: Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, abbreviated ''NS-Frauenschaft'') was the women's wing of the Nazi Party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and Nazi women's assoc ...

, it had the status of the only party approved magazine for women and served propaganda purposes, particularly supporting the role of housewife and mother as exemplary.

History and profile

NS Frauen-Warte 13 1942 Kameraden Aquarell von PK-Zeichner Ernst Kretschmann Nazi propganda No known copyright restriction

''NS-Frauen-Warte'' was first published in 1934. The magazine was published biweekly and had articles on a wide range of topics of interest to women and included sewing patterns. Its articles included such topics as the role of women in the Nazi state,

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efforts in Poland, the education of youth, the importance of play for children, claims that the

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was responsible for the

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, and that

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would destroy Germany and Europe if the

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was not defeated. It defended

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,The Spirit of Race
highlighted the achievements of Nazi women and how the system had benefited females, and discussed bridal schools. Poetry describing children as a form of immortality. During wartime it urged women to have children,

to join in the war effort either in employment or in ''Frauenschaft'' from the very beginning, and to greater efforts in

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.Strength from Love and Faith
Its April 1940 cover showed a peasant woman plowing before a factory, with a soldier's face looming overhead. It depicted accounts of women as nurses during the war, although chiefly as a vehicle for anti-Bolshevist propaganda. It was predominantly a woman's magazine despite containing propaganda; this contrasts sharply with ''

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'', which lay emphasis on the strong and active German woman.

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, ''Mobilizing Women for War'', p 45, The 1939 circulation of the magazine was 1.9 million copies. The magazine ceased publication in 1945. The University of Heidelberg digitized the issues between 1941 and 1945 of the magazine.

References

External links

The NS Frauen WarteA digital archive of the magazine from 1935/36 and from 1941-45
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