ABSTRACT
The regime’s concern to maintain morale on the home front and thus to avoid another ‘stab in the back’ led it to pay particular attention to maintaining family incomes and ensuring that the dependents of men in the armed forces did not suffer the same chronic deprivation that had caused such misery in the previous war. Comparatively generous family allowances were granted to women with modest incomes who had been married for a number of years, and also to war brides.
