In this podcast Professor Matthew Stibbe of Sheffield Hallam University discusses how the role and status of women developed in Germany from the late 19th Century to the end of the 1940s.

1. How had legal recognition of women’s rights developed over the 19th century in Germany?
2. Why were things slow to change?
3. How involved had women been in the political, scientific and intellectual transformation of Germany in the 19th century?
4. What role and status did women have in German society by the early 20th century?
5. Was there a suffragette movement?
6. What role did women play in the war effort during WW1?
7. How involved were women in creating the Weimar Republic?
8. How did life change and develop for women during the Weimar period?
9. Legal changes during the 20s: the beginning of the Welfare State.
10. What did the Nazi’s see as women’s role in Germany?
11. How did the Nazi’s try to redefine women and their role in society?
12. How involved were women with the Nazi party? How involved were women with the resistance?

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