How to become the perfect Nazi bride: The sinister regulations for women to learn to breed, cook, sew,

iron - and worship Hitler

National Socialist 'bride schools' dictated women must learn domestic skills They were trained to be 'perfect' brides of SS men in the Third Reich Headed by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink - a close ally of Heinrich Himmler Bridal school rulebook found in the Federal Archive
By Allan Hall In Berlin PUBLISHED: 17:59, 12 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:27, 12 August 2013

45 View comments

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink w as chief of the Nazi bridal schools and trained w om en to

becom e 'perfect' w ives to SS m en

A sinister set of rules for would-be wives of Nazis in the Third Reich has been discovered three quarters of a century later. Several bride schools were set up with the aim of providing the perfect partners for Adolf Hitlers henchmen. Regulations dictated that young women would be taught washing, cooking, childcare and home design before they could walk up the aisle with the men who would staff death camps and rule conquered lands with an iron fist. They were also instructed in social niceties such as how to hold conversations at cocktail parties and how to bring up their children worshipping not God or Jesus Christ, but Hitler. This is participation in the resurrection path of our people, said Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, chief of the Nazi bride schools which began 75 years ago when the first was established on the island of Schwanenwerder in the Wannsee lake outside of Berlin. Along with the rulebook found in the Federal Archive were certificates adorned with the Germanic Tree of Life which were presented to young girls who passed the six-week course to marry their sweethearts in the SS, Hitlers paramilitary defence force. The bride schools were a collaboration between Scholtz-Klink and SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who was obsessed with German superiority over all races and the need for a strong family life to create a strong, pure nation.

The schools w ere a collaboration betw een Scholtz-Klink (centre) and Heinrich Him m ler (left) w ho w as obsessed w ith Germ an superiority over all races and the need to create a 'pure nation'

Intelligence files from the tim e show that Him m ler could often be seen 'sneering' around to 'catch glim pses of girls dancing'

Himmler signed a decree in 1936 ordering all women who wanted to marry a member of the SS to participate in the special training courses. Not only would they learn how to become good wives, but they would also acquire special knowledge of race and genetics. Failure to comply meant refusal of the marriage certificate. The documents show that the Nazis regarded women, above all else, as breeding machines and sustainers of the race, in the language of the schools. Scholtz-Klink praised motherhood under the Nazis as divine and in a speech to senior party leaders in 1935 ranted: You need us, you depend on us. 'We are into something good, we participate in the resurrection way of our people. Women must be the spiritual caregivers and the secret queens of our people, called upon by fate for this special task! But the doctrine of the bridal schools began to falter the bigger the toll the war took on the home front. With slave labour imports still not enough to plug the manpower gap left by men sent to fight Hitlers war, Scholtz-Klink had to dream up a new ideal of womanhood one less involved with babies and more about turning lathes and operating steel furnaces to turn out the material needed for the fighting man.

Role m odel: Hitler's depute Herm ann Goering, w ith his w ife Em m y and child

Scholtz-Klink was the highest ranking female Nazi in the history of the Third Reich. She ruthlessly followed the party line, disallowing any female with Jewish or gipsy blood, or mental illness or physcial deformity, from attending her bridal courses. Intelligence files from the time report that Himmler could often be seen sneaking around bride school gardens hoping to catch glimpses of girls dancing. A Nazi war criminal has died of pneumonia aged 98 a month before he was due to be sentenced for his part in sending 16,000 Jews to their deaths. Laszlo Csatary had been under house arrest for over a

year in his native Hungary after being found guilty in his absence by a court in Slovakia. Prosecutors said he regularly beat and whipped interned Jews for no special reason, regardless of their sex, age or health.

OATHS OF S.S. BRIDES: BE LOYAL TO HITLER AND SUSTAIN GERMANIC RACE

The bridal candidates of the S.S. marriage academy had to swear certain things, including: Loyalty to Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Nazi Party superiors 'unto death.' To marry in neo-pagan ceremonies before a party functionary and an altar bedecked with S.S. runes and oak-leaves instead of in a church before a Christian cleric. Pledge to remain at all times 'Sustainers of the Germanic Race.' Promise to 'become proficient in cooking and housekeeping, sewing, washing and ironing; childcare, nursing and home design.' Declare that any and all children born in marriage 'will be raised in accordance with the ideals of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.'

FROM THE WEB

by Taboola

Can You Really Make $1000s With Penny Sto

The Life Wiki

5 Misconceptions About Getting A Flat Stomach

Fitnea

5 Easy Ways to Save Money on Life Insurance

Best Life Cover

See Base Jumpers Soar Over Mysterious Nazca

Red Bull

MOST WATCHED NEWS VIDEOS

Previous 1 2 3 Next

Hammerhead shark 'stunned' into giving birth on beach

Water bomber puts out traffic crash in spectacular style

'Oprah's a liar': Sales assistant in Swiss racist handbag...

Hammerhead shark stuns fisherman by giving birth to a litter...

The model family: Mother, father and their four children...

Fire service volunteer who posed in her uniform for...

American girl seriously injured last month in Spain's...

Top British event rider, 16, dies after falling from her...

Restaurateur who had critics raving about his pizzas finally...

Has Fergie been let back into the fold? Duchess of York...

Comments (45)

Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View newest 10 You mean there really was a Nazi named Klink?? That is awesome! - LJ, Tacoma, 12/8/2013 22:34 Click to rate Report abuse It is easy to get the perfect wife - just say yes to everything she says! - Fred, Colony of EUSSR, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 22:23 Click to rate Report abuse Men love to watch women doing the laundry or ironing. - Robert Esquire, Tamworth, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 22:08 Click to rate Report abuse Sounds like an ideal family life. I bet your average German teenage hausfrau didn't weight 15 stone, have 7 kids by 8 fathers, receive disability allowance and wasn't covered in tattoos. - worldweary, Heavens Gate, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 22:04 Click to rate Report abuse Roles are reversing. I'm telling you. I dated lots of 20something yr old women and almost all of them couldn't cook and their flats were a mess. I cook, clean, own a house, etc basically do everything myself with my live-in gf. Todays women are laaaaaazy! LAZY LAZY LAZY!!!!! - Mitur Binesderty, Manchester, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 22:02 Click to rate Report abuse We have ways of making you cook. - AaA, Midlands, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 21:54 Click to rate Report abuse all beit without nazi overtones Bride schools carried on until the 60's in Germany , young ladies learnt how to be housewives and mothers , how to cook and how to give dinner parties and entertain the husband's boss - frosch, frankfurt, 12/8/2013 21:49 Click to rate Report abuse Rating 29 Rating 39 Rating 22 Rating 49 Rating 19 Rating 34 Rating 34

hard-faced, amongst other things, wasn't she? - Moomin, Far Far Away, 12/8/2013 21:45 Click to rate Report abuse As Mark Twain surmised, a lie (propounded of the victors) will travel the world whilst the truth it still putting its boots on. In Britain, young girls and women were taught the same thing. - Prophet, Riga, Latvia, 12/8/2013 21:44 Click to rate Report abuse Only equal marriage where men do as much childcare and cleaning as women really works properly in practice. - EnglishRose, London, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 21:43 Click to rate Report abuse If I'd been born there and then,I would have remained a spinster my whole life. - Ms F, Not the world I had in mind, Switzerland, 12/8/2013 21:28 Click to rate Report abuse Just like today's right-wingers, then. - Miss, Wolverhampton, 12/8/2013 21:27 Click to rate Report abuse Housekeeping, sewing, washing and ironing, childcare, nursing and home design they sound like the skills so many women lack today. - Mark Alexander, London, 12/8/2013 21:26 Click to rate Report abuse 'Revealed' - this is hardly news DM, try and keep up! - jmb1963, Baghdad, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 21:24 Click to rate Report abuse The article sounds shocking but is it? In my school days, the 1950s, girls did domestic science (cooking and house hygene) and needlework whilst the boys did woodwork and mettlework and the system was overseen by both Labour and Tory parties in their turn. We have been blighted by PC which makes some women feel superior - my biggest laugh in recent years was reporting to do some work at an institution to be met by a woman in a suit who kept referring to us as 'you guys' as though she was one of the boys - unfortunately, she was clearly not cut out for the part and came over as some surreal comedy act. I am sure times aren't for the better! Nothing wong with equal pay which has helped me to Rating 21 Rating 56 Rating 22 Rating 20 Rating 9 Rating 20 Rating 12

control two good wages giving us both a good standard of living and sound financial security - nothing is wasted on petty expenditure and the investments have returned good dividends. Hurrah for Mrs Pankhurst, that's what I say! - Observer, East Midlands, 12/8/2013 21:21 Click to rate Report abuse I cook clean bring my kids well, and do interior design. And all without the aid of an appendage, - deborah, spain, 12/8/2013 21:03 Click to rate Report abuse Obviously Herr Klink's sister. - Alice, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 21:00 Click to rate Report abuse And what do the men do. Smile sweetly? We're your equals. Not some lackey born to run around after you inferior lot. Ha ha ha. - Minnie the Minx, UK, 12/8/2013 20:57 Click to rate Report abuse Why did we have to win the war, if we had lost there would have been jobs for all the boys! - bigbucks, lincoln, 12/8/2013 20:53 Click to rate Report abuse HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS! - Eric, Widnes, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 20:51 Click to rate Report abuse That's a face to scare the horses. - Barbwire, NH, USA, 12/8/2013 20:51 Click to rate Report abuse No different from the rest of Europe at the time then? - had to be said...., Brighton, 12/8/2013 20:48 Click to rate Report abuse Rating 25 Rating 1 Rating 11 Rating 3 Rating 9 Rating 8 Rating 4 Rating 18

Please stop this propaganda against germany. Germans are very nice people who want to put this behind them. I know its important to know history but tbh politicians always repeat history anyway. - inkfluid, Birmingham, UK, 12/8/2013 20:43 Click to rate Report abuse we all know that Nazis were evil, but when you look at their pictures they all look surrealistic as well... creepy... - Jacob London Great, London, 12/8/2013 20:15 Click to rate Report abuse Frau Scholtz-Klink reminds me of Frau Farbissina from Austin Powers - Bonzer Bogan, Kent, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 20:09 Click to rate Report abuse Well,I would have been left on the shelf then... - Ms F, Not the world I had in mind, Switzerland, 12/8/2013 20:03 Click to rate Report abuse all the comments making jokes on this make me sick - Fresh Prince Of WA, Manchester, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 20:00 Click to rate Report abuse The "Lost Arts of Womanhood". - Patrick, Belfast, 12/8/2013 19:59 Click to rate Report abuse I find it fascinating that there was such a strong focus on children born in wedlock according to this doctrine. In other Nazi propaganda, women were encouraged to bare as many children to SS officers as possible and marriage was not considered a necessity. Rather, having the child who came for the 'superior' stock found in the SS was believed to a civic duty. - Kkrause, Indianapolis, United States, 12/8/2013 19:55 Click to rate Report abuse Seems pretty homely to me! - gb2k12, West Country, 12/8/2013 19:49 Click to rate Rating 8 Rating 9 Rating 4 Rating 19 Rating 9 Rating 11 Rating 7 Rating 53

Report abuse My cleaning & cooking skills leave a lot to be desired & I'm short with brown hair...... - jojojo, Kempton, Alg, 12/8/2013 19:44 Click to rate Report abuse And..... Old news DM. - poor northener, up north, hey up, 12/8/2013 19:27 Click to rate Report abuse It figures the Nazi's would want perfect little brides for their perfect world they were trying to create. - tangerinedream, Dry Heat, United States, 12/8/2013 19:26 Click to rate Report abuse Washing, cooking, childcare and home design,how terrible!!!!!...Hold on i think my nan and mum can relate to that regime here in the Capatalist UK ! - Carl, Kent, 12/8/2013 19:22 Click to rate Report abuse Are the Mail really that stuck for a story ? What utter dull dross ! - f58tgv, Bristol Uk, 12/8/2013 19:19 Click to rate Report abuse Sounds very outdated and misogynistic, like the church. OOOOOOOOOOOOo - Cheeky31982, Madrid, Spain, 12/8/2013 19:14 Click to rate Report abuse Give it a rest. Nazi this Nazi that. They lost and it was nearly 70 years ago. - Hari Seldon, Trantor, 12/8/2013 19:14 Click to rate Report abuse Sounds good to me. - The Doctor, England, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 19:13 Click to rate Rating 86 Rating 9 Rating 13 Rating 5 Rating 6 Rating 12 Rating 3 Rating (0)

Report abuse Not all bad then, eh? - David, Notts, United Kingdom, 12/8/2013 19:09 Click to rate Report abuse Ah. The good old days. - Evel Lucion, Bracknell, 12/8/2013 19:05 Click to rate Report abuse That is one scary-looking female. - Barbara, Montreal, 12/8/2013 19:01 Click to rate Report abuse see they got some things right - the, orgazoid, 12/8/2013 18:57 Click to rate Report abuse I have made my wife read this article...she claims she does all of the stuff mentioned....but steadfastly refuses to wear the uniform ...pity that! - limbo, Durham, 12/8/2013 18:57 Click to rate Report abuse sounds something that harriat harmon would dream up - mack, glasgow, 12/8/2013 18:56 Click to rate Report abuse And the socialists are still hard on women. Nothing changes. - B J Deller, Malaga Spain, Spain, 12/8/2013 18:21 Click to rate Report abuse Share this comment The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Rating 94 Rating 30 Rating 183 Rating 68 Rating 134 Rating 60 Rating 65