21 Mai 1939 Jahr - Mother's Cross

Beschreibung:

-incentive for women to have several children

-bronze: 4 children, silver: 6, gold: 8

-children + mother had to be Aryan, politically reliable, not asocial, & not have a congenital disease

-aim: increase birth rate (pro-natalist policy), in line with idea of Greater Germany (expansionism to create more Lebensraum for German people - need for population increase to populate conquered land)