How the Nazi Party used women in its politics

After the First World War women in Germany were given the vote and a feminist elite, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin, helped to shape the political post-war scene. Luxemburg, the leader of the Spartacus League, was murdered by the Freikorps in January, 1919, but other women replaced her at the forefront of politics and by 1932 they had 36 members of the Reichstag. Germany also had 100thousand women teachers, 13 thousand women musicians and 3 thousand women doctors.
During the early 1930s women often found it easier to find jobs than men. The main reason was that female labour was cheaper. As Richard Grunberger has pointed out, Skilled women earned 66 percent of men's wages, unskilled ones 70 percent, which explains why during the Depression nearly one man in three was dismissed but only one woman in every ten In 1933 women formed 37 percent of the total employed labour force in Germany.