What History Teaches: Women’s Loss of Rights During the Third Reich

In this installment of “What History Teaches: The Rise of Nazism,” Dr. Deborah Barton and the Montreal Holocaust Museum discuss women’s particular struggles during the rise of the Nazi regime. Professor Barton discusses the loss of women’s rights, particularly for Jewish, Black, and political opponents in 1930s Germany. She also talks about so-called Aryan women who were able to negotiate roles for themselves and who became a part of Nazi processes of perpetration.