id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dz010p11c1w Martina Cucchiara 'Bitter Times:' The Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame in Hitler's Germany, 1933 to 1945 2011 .txt text/plain 739 29 46 These age-old tensions between the social and sexual demands placed on women and women's continued insistence on religious vocations reached a zenith in Nazi Germany. Catholic religious vocations in fact offered countless women an alternative to marriage, a higher education, and the chance to enter a profession at a time when opportunities for women contracted in the secular realm. cache/dz010p11c1w.txt txt/dz010p11c1w.txt