DeMo - Democracy Monday: Antifeminism in the Nazi era

We want to discuss the role of women under National Socialism in a round table. Were there parallels to the time during the First World War, what was the resistance against the Nazi regime like? What is the rubble women myth all about? What was it like for the women when their husbands returned from the war? How did the wives of the resistance fighters fare after the war, how did the surviving women resistance fighters fare? Can we draw a connection to today (with the shift to the right in the USA, the shift to the right in Germany?) What relevance does the consideration of the role of women during the National Socialist era and also during the First World War have for us today?

"At its core, women's and gender history is about the question of how ideas and images of men and women are created and what political and social consequences this has. The relationship between the sexes is an important cause of social dynamics. "Gender" is not only a biological fact, but also a changing socio-cultural construct." (Sybille Steinbacher "Frauen im Führerstaat")

"Women have become much more independent as a result of the war....., they have gained tremendously in independence, life experience and knowledge of the world." (Adelheid Steinmann in the 1918 Yearbook of the Federation of German Women's Associations - from "Margaretha's Daughters" Birgit Heidtke/Christina Rössler)

Plenty of material for discussion with Frauke Geyken, Irmgard Meiners-Schuth, Leonore Rombach, young women from the Nemory contemporary witness project, among others, moderated by Petra Gaus

Accompanying the event is an exhibition of paintings by Freiburg painter Gretel Bechtold (1922 - 2027).