National Socialist Women's League
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.
