Aug 4, 2020
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Nazi Baby Machines: Hitler Institutes the Mother’s Cross 1938
On August 12, 1938, Adolph Hitler introduced the Mother’s Cross as an incentive for German women to produce butt-loads of children for the Third Reich. Hitler chose that date specifically to honor his mother Klara every year on her birthday. A gold medal was presented to mothers with seven children, a silver to mothers with six children, and a bronze to those losahs with a mere five.
