‘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 and served propaganda purposes, particularly supporting the role of housewife and mother as exemplary.’
All images (c) Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg
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Thank you to Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg
Wow, I wasn’t expecting them to look quite so evil and murderous. What gruesome renderings. The actual photographs are much less disturbing.
Cold murderous faces of the past. And they all look like men.
I think they’re supposed to look stern. It’s all in your perspective.
wow, with all my sincere despise to Nazis, i don’t understand what you first two commenters talk about. gruesome renderings? cold murderous faces? one word: prejudice. you didn’t see any war-time propaganda posters before? yes, they do supposed to look stern and, at that point, not a big difference from Soviet war-time posters. the only faces scaring me are those corpse-like twins on a cover and man-like nurse at pic #4. gee. the rest are just women, bothered and tired. some beautiful paintings too, that i hope weren’t made on a purposde of propaganda. all of these pictures(except for Hitler) don’t scream “Nazi” if you don’t think of what magazine they are from, really. so, on opposite, i’m surprised by not finding as much evil addressing as expected..
Aleksandra – exactly.
Most of these pictures are of children, I mean REALLY…
It’s one thing hating what the Nazis did, but to demonise Germans of the time as ‘evil’?… If we should take one lesson from Nazi Germany it’s that it was mob mentality and manipulation as government; it could happen anywhere. They were not evil, No more than Jim Crow southerners or the average Iranian/Israeli citizen is.
The Nazis really screwed up all things German for quite awhile now. I think the trend is finally progressing beyond “Germany = Nazism” as the contemporary German armed forces provide much needed support for the multi-national operation in Afghanistan and what the German economy provides to the world.
Too bad also is what the Nazi party did for co-opting the swastika; the swastika was and is an ancient revered icon to several Eastern religions and cultures.
Ditto for the “Hitler” mustache. The style Adolf Hitler wore long predated him, but it will be forever associated with him.
The same thing can be seen in Israel these days.
Those are the ugliest women I’ve ever seen.
My thoughts exactly! Amazing how some of them have such manly features!
Really? I thought all of the people (women included) looked very normal? I don’t see how those women are ugly, just regular people. It’s sad how some people always jump to attack images of women just for the sake of doing so.
These images really surprised me, not the early ones but the women in uniform and in the factories. Early in the war, Hitler railed against the ‘un-natural’ policy of the British that put women in the factories and on Anti Aircraft batteries. They should be in the home was the message. I suppose he changed his view!
lesson to be learned: don’t be so quick to click your tongue or cast the stone before we look at ourselves. this could happen anywhere if we aren’t diligent in stopping hatred and blind ambition. The propaganda message was that you could celebrate Christmas whilst behaving in a most unchristian-like manner. There’s an awful lot of that going around right now.
I used to look down my nose at Germans thinking how could they support such a horrible regime. It could never happen here. But now i see our current political situation and realize it could happen here. Facism does not die.
I didn’t think any of the women were ugly,they had interesting features,with character.
Most of the women there looked exactly like the people where I grew up. I was born in the American Midwest in a place where where most of the immigrants had been German, Polish, and Ukranian.
Perhaps you object to the style of art, but the features of the women are not extraordinary, not ugly, and not unusual — unless you’ve never met any working-class people of German/Polish/Ukranian extraction. And if you consider working-class people ugly by their very nature, then you’ve got bigger problems that can be addressed here.
We are just used to seeing women with make-up today. It is easy to forget that make-up was in short supply during World War 2.