[scorpion]

The Germans would be better off with a return to the traditional attitude of "kinder, küche, kirche."

And if they weren't so ashamed of their Nazi past, they could take one of the actual good pages out of Hitler's playbook and award mothers medals based on the number of children they have.

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The Cross of Honor of the German Mother was conferred from 1939 until 1945 in three classes of order, bronze, silver, and gold, to German mothers who exhibited probity, exemplary motherhood, and who conceived and raised at least four or more children in the role of a parent.

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1st Class Order, Gold Cross: eligible mothers with eight or more children
2nd Class Order, Silver Cross: eligible mothers with six to seven children
3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross: eligible mothers with four to five children

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A number of small financial benefits including various privileges were bound to the honour, one example being preferential treatment, precedence and priority service within society and public services. As one recount recalls "…they were always given the best of everything: housing, food, clothing, and schooling for their children. Old people even had to give up their seats on the bus or streetcar. They were treated like royalty with the greatest respect. No standing in line for them. At the butchers shop the best cuts of meat would go into their baskets. A helper or nurse was assigned by the government to help them take care of the brood and arrived first thing in the morning". An annuity was also considered for a recipient mother of the decoration, but due to government budget constraints, this proved unworkable. Members of the Hitler Youth organization were also instructed; a wearer of the Mother’s Cross was to be honourably greeted (saluted) when encountered. The Völkischer Beobachter (People’s Observer) national newspaper (1938 Issue No. 25) stated: "…the holder of the Mother’s Cross of Honour will in future enjoy all types of privileges that we by nature have accustomed to our nations honoured comrades and our injured war veterans."

Look at that last paragraph there. Definitely sounds like they were victims of patriarchal oppression, doesn't it? Thank God today's modern woman is no longer held down like this, and is free to find fulfillment by pushing paper all day in a cubicle, riding the cock carousel until her late 30s, and finally squeezing a single, developmentally disabled child out of her desiccated womb and raising it without a father. Now that's progress.