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NAZI POLICY INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE GERMAN FAMILY

NAZI POLICY INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE GERMAN FAMILY. Interest-free marriage loans of RM 1,000 Drive for full employment (National Labor Service; arms industry boom financed by Hjalmar Schacht; military conscription restored in 1935)

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NAZI POLICY INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE GERMAN FAMILY

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  1. NAZI POLICY INITIATIVES TO STRENGTHEN THE GERMAN FAMILY • Interest-free marriage loans of RM 1,000 • Drive for full employment (National Labor Service; arms industry boom financed by Hjalmar Schacht; military conscription restored in 1935) • Public honors for fruitful mothers; births out of wedlock were de-stigmatized, but miscegenation was outlawed • Compulsory sterilization of 320,000 of the mentally ill, mentally handicapped, and “anti-social” from 1934 to 1939 (vs. 11,000 in the USA from 1907 to 1930) • Family vacations subsidized by the German Labor Front • For a good overview, see Matthew Stibbe, Women in the Third Reich, London: Arnold, 2003

  2. “None shall go hungry! None shall freeze! Winter Aid of the German People, 1934/35”

  3. “Support the Aid Program forMOTHER AND CHILD” “The NSDAP protects the Volksgemeinschaft”

  4. “League of German Girls in the Hitler Youth “National Sports Day, League of German Girls,23 September 1934”

  5. Two girls enjoy an outing organized by the League of German Girls, ca. 1936

  6. Georg Kolbe,“Couple”(from the “Great German Art Exhibition” held in Munich in 1937)

  7. The Nordic ideal of beauty, painted by Oskar Just and Wolfgang Willrich.

  8. DID NAZI POLICIES RAISE THE BIRTH RATE?LIVE BIRTHS PER THOUSAND INHABITANTS: All three western democracies experienced a postwar “baby boom” on a scale similar to that encouraged by Germany’s sudden transition from mass unemployment to full employment in 1933-38….

  9. “The congenitally ill patient costs the National Community 60,000 Marks over his lifetime” (1937) Microcephalic patient from a Nazi documentary, 1937

  10. Still from I Accuse (dir. Wolfgang Liebenneier, 1941):Professor Heydt consoles his incurably ill wife shortlybefore administering a morphine overdose.

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