Privathaushalte im Spannungsfeld der Staatspolitik. Sozial- und Familienpolitik im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren

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Household in Labyrinth of the State Policy. Theory and Practice of Family Policy in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Abstract The study addresses the family policy in Bohemia and Moravia during Nazi domination, 1939–45. It starts with an introduction to expert discourse on the population policy of the First Czechoslovak Republic, which deeply influenced the thinking about family in the late 1930s and 1940s. Families living in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were affected by a number of directive measures that were implemented for example in relation to employment or consistent regulation of consumer goods. The authors deal with the living standards of families in the late 1930s and 1940s, affected by the ‘protection discourse’ concerning maternity and the importance of family care resembling the National Socialist ‘cult of maternity’. The last part of the study deals with nourishment and healthcare of families. The economic exclusivity of Bohemia and Moravia offered an opportunity for a relatively decent living standard of the German as well as Czech families. Stabilisation of social conditions became the crucial intention of the occupation elites, and was completed with a discourse of family protection in the interest of the Czech ‘national community’. In spite of a number of social programmes introduced, primarily with respect to aiding the indigent, the social and health care system was profoundly conditioned by racial criteria, nationality, and political allegiance. ----- Bibliographie : Sustrova, Radka/Rakosnik, Jakub: Privathaushalte im Spannungsfeld der Staatspolitik. Sozial- und Familienpolitik im Protektorat Bohmen und Mahren, JB historie, 1-2014, S. 305-320. https://doi.org/10.3224/jbh.v7i1.16