Separate gender roles for men and women existed throughout Europe and North America in the early twentieth century, and many activities were segregated by gender. Although Nazi ideology included a belief in particularly strict and specific gender roles for men and women, the upheavals of World War II and the Holocaust challenged traditional gender roles in a number of different ways.
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Healthy Woman - Healthy Nation"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Is This Unmanly?"
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"On the Auschwitz trial in Kraków (impressions)"
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Irene Hauser
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Saartje Wijnberg
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleIdentification Card for Gerd Katter
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter by Marketa Brady from Ravensbrück
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLithograph by Richard Grune
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhoto Collage from a Nazi Magazine
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhoto of the Eldorado Club
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePolice Report on Fritz Kitzing
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePolice Statement from Margot Liu
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustRecipes from the Cookbook of Eva Ostwalt
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Blanka Rothschild
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Frieda Belinfante