Nazi treatment of women physicians

Female medical students, like male, were concentrated in Medizinische Fachschaften (medical work units) to spread Nazi propaganda. Also women had other nonmedical extracurricular tasks. From 1940, three months a year of hospital service; from 1941, orderly duties in a hospital for six months before admittance to med school; from 1940 on, obligatory “field service” (usually at harvest time) via physical labor or factory work. After all this, female docs worked mainly in the conquered East, trying to prevent trachoma or teaching Polish-German mothers proper baby care; they also had “race-hygienic, eugenic tasks performed under the SS (Kater, 102-104).