She was a good orator, and her main task was to promote male superiority, the joys of home labour and the importance of child-bearing.

This was expressed during a debate on male domineering and bullying, she once confided to a senior BDM girl leader: "What woman could possibly object or not want to be forcibly taken by her man.

1 female Nazi, hailed Herr Hitler with bursts of wild, ecstatic cheering which kept up for the whole 45 minutes that he addressed them in his happiest mood.

Many of the 50,000 women wept as they cheered, and Herr Hitler himself seemed on the point of tears as he concluded: 'When my day comes I will die happy that I can say my life has not been in vain.

In July 1936, Scholtz-Klink was appointed as head of the Woman's Bureau in the German Labor Front, with the responsibility of persuading women to work for the benefit of the Nazi government.

For propaganda reasons, Nazi Germany liked to present her as influential to foreign countries, but her views were reportedly not considered important.

By 1940, Scholtz-Klink was married to her third husband SS-Obergruppenführer August Heissmeyer, and made frequent trips to visit women at Political Concentration Camps.

After the fall of Nazi Germany, in the summer of 1945, she was briefly detained in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp near Magdeburg, but escaped shortly afterwards.

In addition, the court imposed a fine and banned her from political and trade union activity, journalism and teaching for ten years.