may 21, 1939 - Mother's Cross

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-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)

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