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Room for newborns in the "Lebensborn" ["Fountain of Life"] Association maternity home in Steinhöring (Upper Bavaria) (1938)

To increase the birthrate, the Nazi regime ran a non-stop propaganda campaign that glorified starting a family and having children. One manifestation of the Nazi "cult of the mother" was the "Cross of Honor for the German Mother" (also known as the…

Photo of Reich Women's Leader Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

The Aryan Family (undated) is a print after a painting by Wolfgang Willrich. It depicts what could be described as the quintessential Aryan family.