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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http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9797/yymotherscrossbw1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
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.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5092/yyymotherscrossqf4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
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.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/3284/yye1578or7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Silver for six kiddies
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