"In her essay, Helene Radtke, a 38-year-old wife of a German soldier, describes her 'divine duty to forget about all my household chores and to perform my service to my homeland.'
Agnes Molster-Surm, a housewife and private tutor, calls Hitler her 'God-given Führer and savior, Adolf Hitler, for Germany’s honor, Germany’s fortune and Germany’s freedom!'
Another woman replaced the star on her Christmas tree with a photograph of Hitler surrounded by a halo of candles. These men and women shared the message of National Socialism as if it was gospel and refer to new party members as 'converts.' One such woman describes early efforts to 'convert' her family to Nazism as falling 'on stony soil and not even the slightest little green sapling of understanding sprouted.' She was later 'converted through conversations with her mailman."
"Why did women vote for Hitler? Long-forgotten essays hold some answers"
~ Sarah R. Warren, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Nathan Stoltzfus
https://theconversation.com/why-did-women-vote-for-hitler-long-forgotten-essays-hold-some-answers-134481
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