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Okla-homey
8/12/2006, 07:31 AM
August 12, 1938 Hitler institutes the Mother's Cross

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Gold Mothers Cross...awarded for seven children or more

68 years ago on this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother's Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitler's mother's birthday.

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Certificate accompanying award of the Mothers Cross

The German Reich needed a robust and growing population and encouraged couples to have large families. After all, if you are planning to conquer the world, you need plenty of d00ds to populate your armies and new territories. The Reich started such encouragement early. Once members of the female wing of the Hitler Youth movement, the League of German Girls, turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers.

One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, in honor of his beloved mother, Klara, and in memory of her birthday, a gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five.

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Silver for six kiddies

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olevetonahill
8/12/2006, 07:58 AM
Is this why hillary refused to Meet with the GOLD CROSS Moms :mad:

OUHOMER
8/12/2006, 08:05 AM
It is amazing how much influence a mother has over their kids. Maybe we need to put our recourses to helping the women in the Mideast, Give them metals for not having kids

12
8/12/2006, 08:22 AM
Moms make the world go 'round.

That was very interesting, Col. Homey. I grew up in a Russian-krout town in the geographical armpit of Oklahoma. There were a couple of houses with the swastika included on the exterior brickwork of their fireplaces. I'm sure they still stand if you are to inclined to travel to that neck 'o the woods...

http://pics2.city-data.com/city/maps4/frs4689.gif

There's a Pizza Hut and an outstanding burger and chicken-fried place (Ed's Cafe) there. I don't think either use the swastika in their marketing efforts, though.

Here's some more "crooked cross" info for those interested:
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

Graphically, it's a pretty cool design... implying forward motion and unity and such...

Gee, THANKS HITLER.

Ash
8/12/2006, 08:39 AM
A design similar to the swastika was commonly used for centuries by Native Americans in the Southwest US (often facing the other direction). And, before Hitler, was a somewhat common design element in an Art Deco architecture style that incorporated aspects of Native American motifs called "Pueblo Deco". needless to say, once the Nazis came around use of it in commercial or public venues stopped.

Ash
8/12/2006, 08:40 AM
http://pics2.city-data.com/city/maps4/frs4689.gif

Isn't shattuck home of the windmill museum?:)

12
8/12/2006, 08:43 AM
http://www.shattuckwindmillmuseum.org/

Oh yeah! But it wasn't there when I was a lad. It was more just "wind."

Ash
8/12/2006, 08:45 AM
http://www.shattuckwindmillmuseum.org/

Oh yeah! But it wasn't there when I was a lad. It was more just "wind."

Heh...It's kinda cool. I really dig the reconstructed dugout/soddie they've got there.

jdsmith
8/12/2006, 09:18 AM
The swastika is still used in Asia on maps to indicate a temple.