National Socialist Women's League

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The National Socialist Women's League (German: Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft, abbreviated NS-Frauenschaft and NSF) was the women's wing of the NSDAP.

History

It published a biweekly magazine (the NS-Frauen-Warte), provided education and propaganda, encouraged use of German manufactured products and German self-sufficiency (autarky), and during the war organized activities such as collecting scrap materials.

The NS-Frauenschaft reached a total membership of 2.3 million by 1938, the equivalent of 40 % of the total party membership. From 1934 to the end of World War II in 1945, the NS-Frauenschaft, alongside with the Deutsches Frauenwerk (1.7 million members), was led by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink.

See also

• Hitler Youth (League of German Girls)
• Jentehirden of the Nasjonal Samling
• German American Bund – Also had their woman’s auxiliary called the Frauenschaft.

External links (in German)

• Wehrmachtshelferinnenkorps
• SS-Helferinnenkorps
• Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend
• NS-Schwesternschaft
• BDM-Werk „Glaube und Schönheit“
• Reichsschule des Reichsnährstandes für Leibesübungen