In response to an open letter from Madame Rosika Schwimmer, noted feminist, to all American feminists concerning their reaction to Hitler’s anti-feminist decrees and orders, the National Council of the National Woman’s Party issued a statement embodying a series of resolutions adopted by the organization.
The resolutions condemned in no uncertain terms the actions of the Hitler regime in excluding German women from all professional and business activity and asserted that such action would “reduce the German women to economic dependence upon the men.”
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