So yesterday I did a post on sterilization of "lesser people" according to Nazi Germany and I thought today I would follow that with Germany's policies on German women having children. Like I talked about earlier Hitler was looking for a "master race." He wanted Germany's "racially pure" women to breed as many Aryan children as possible. Hitler wanted Germans to reproduce to create more soldiers and German citizens to take over the lands that Germany conquered. In 1936 the SS leaders founded the program Lebensborn, or Fount of Life. This program states every SS member should father at least four children, whether he was married or not. This program was not received well due to the immorality of children out of wedlock. Instead, they began rewarding German families who produced children by honoring them publicly, giving them monetary rewards, and the Cross of Honor of the German Mother. German mothers who bore four of five children received a bronze medal, six or seven children a silver medal, and eight or more got them a gold medal.
While reading about the sterilization experiments I found this upsetting story. Apparently after finding out a doctor had helped a SS leader's infertile wife conceive, they ordered him to conduct experiments on women prisoners in Auschwitz. He reportedly performed experiments on around 300 women and would tie them down and taunt them by telling them he had just inseminated them with animal sperm and monsters were now growing in their wombs.
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