ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers the debate which originated in the early 1970s in the field of women’s studies in Germany. This debate surrounded the question of whether women during the era of National Socialism could properly be considered only as victims, or whether women had not also been collaborators, supporters, and enthusiastic advocates of this system. On the political level, “Aryan women” experienced an enhancement of their status in National Socialism as a result of the public statements and activities of the Nazi women’s association and its representatives. According to Michel Foucault, the significance of seduction lies in the process whereby the seduced individual, at a certain moment, crosses a threshold to obtain a share of power or to come to an arrangement with it. The author also considers the policies pursued by National Socialism to seduce women to support its political program.
