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I was reading in The Nation, 1933¹, and stumbled upon the article “German Culture in Exile”, which was poking through the brittle blocks of Hitler’s newly National Socialistically crumbling society.  What caught my eye in particular was this note about the role of women, which although I knew about this still put it all in a different light: 

This was all quite different from the experience  of women in the Weimar society (1919-1933) where the new democratic experience resulted in numerous advances not the least of which was the right to vote.  Nazis in–women, out.  Except, really, for the home and hearth and reproductive part, substantially different from women comprising 35% of the workforce in 1925.   And just for the serendipitous aspect of it I checked out Mein Kampf on the Internet Archive: I did a text search and found only 22 mentions of “women” and eight for “woman”; on the other hand “men” occurs 2839 times, and “man” 2773.  Does this mean something?–well, yes.  But the question about what it means is quite something else, the answer to which I am not privy. But it does seem to support something obvious in and of itself.