The NS-Frauenschaft was the women's wing

Women's wing

A women's wing is an organisation affiliated with a political party that consists of that party's female membership or acts to promote women within that party. The organisations take different roles and types, with some giving women the option of joining and others automatically enrolling all...

 of the Nazi party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and national-socialist women's associations.

The Frauenschaft was subordinated to the national party leadership (NSDAP-Reichsleitung); girls and young women were the purview of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM). From February 1934 to the end of World War II in 1945, the NS-Frauenschaft was led by Reich's Women's Leader (Reichsfrauenführerin) Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink née Treusch was a fervent Nazi Party member and leader of the National Socialist Women's League in Nazi Germany.- Nazi activities :...

 (1902–1999). It put out a biweekly magazine, the NS-Frauen-Warte

NS-Frauen-Warte

NS-Frauen-Warte was the Nazi magazine for women. 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....

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Its activities included instruction in the use of German-manufactured products, such as butter and rayon, in place of imported ones, as part of the self-sufficiency program, and classes for brides and schoolgirls. During wartime, it also provided refreshments at train stations, collected scrap metal and other materials, ran cookery and other classes, and allocated the domestics conscripted in the east to large families. Propaganda organizations depended on it as the primary spreader of propaganda to women.

The NS Frauenschaft reached a total membership of 2 million by 1938, the equivalent of 40% of total party membership.

The German National Socialist Women's League Children's Group was known as "Kinderschar".

External links

• Die NS-Frauenschaft at Lebendiges Museum Online.
• NS-Frauenpolitik und NS-Frauenorganisationen (NS women's policy and women's organisations] at Lebendiges Museum Online.