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Then they came for the feminists…
With women the world over once again facing the beginnings of neonazi persecution, we should be thinking urgently about organised resistance, says LOUISE RAW
Anti-nazi radio operator Noor Inayaat Khan and Beatty Orwell, who fought Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts as a teenager

KINDER, Kuche, Kirche — not lesser-known Kardashian sisters, but Nazi ideals for women. 

Heinrich Himmler reduced these “three Ks (“children, kitchen, church”) even further; women had only to “be beautiful and to bring children into the world,” opined the man with a face reminiscent of a partly baked potato.

The Nazis were never consistent in their responses to the “woman question.” While publicly encouraging only married motherhood, giving women incentives to marry, they also told the SS and German military to impregnate as many “Aryan” women as possible, in or out of wedlock — a policy Himmler personally pursued with his mistresses. 

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