Pick two of the following countries (Germany, United States, USSR, Japan) and compare how women were treated in these countries during World War II. (In other words, how was their treatment of women similar and/or different?) *

In Germany women were treated as reproductive machines, meant to produce a line of “pure aryan” babies. There even a specific program called lebensborn which was a program specifically geared to create a pure aryan race by recruiting German women to copulate with soldiers or German men, and create the “master race”. In America women were allowed new freedoms and were called into the workforce since men were off fighting. Fashions also changed and women began wearing more work oriented clothing such as pants.