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Students with drawings demonstrating National Socialist family and race policy

Two students show their drawings on the subjects of 'Blessed with children in the East' and the 'Mendelian Inheritance' made in their class on Population Policy and Genetics.

Eheweihe (marriage ceremony) on the Wewelsburg, 1930s

View of a bride and groom of the SS, arm in arm on the Wewelsburg in East Westphalia, the cult site of the SS Order. To the new marriage ceremony still belongs, as previously ,a white wedding dress, a bridal bouquet and myrtle wreath, reinterpreted as a Germanic spring symbol. Undated picture.

Eheweihe (marriage ceremony) on the Wewelsburg, 1930s

Bride and groom of the SS at their marriage ceremony before wedding guests on the Wewelsburg in East Westphalia, the cult site of the SS Order. To the new marriage ceremony still belongs, as previously ,a white wedding dress, a bridal bouquet and myrtle wreath, reinterpreted as a Germanic spring symbol. Undated picture.

The exhibition "Fuer einen gesunden Nachwuchs", 1930s

At the exhibition of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Berufskrankenkassen in Berlin under the motto "Fuer einen gesunden Nachwuchs" (For a healthy new generation). A display board entitled "Should it be like this?" showing a statistical representation of the development of the population is intended to illustrate that without an increase in the birth rate the population would begin to shrink in the next few years.

NSV nurse visiting a mother and her children, 1940

A nurse from the National Socialist People's Welfare Organisation explains the basic rules of child care to a young mother during a visit as part of the Kriegswinterhilfswerk ("Winter War Relief").

Knight's Cross bearer Heinrich Banze with his family, 1942

Staff Sergeant Heinrich Banze, who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during a mission of the 113th Infantry Division, is here on home leave in Hofgeismar in Kurhessen with his wife and child. On his field-grey uniform jacket, he wears the Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen), Infantry Assault Badge (Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen) and the Iron Cross 1st Class.

Badge of the Bund der Kinderreichen (Union of Large Families), 1930s

The picture shows the badge of the Bund der Kinderreichen (Union of Large Families), which is approximately the same size as the party badge. In the middle of the badge is a silver eagle with outstretched wings, which protects its five boys. The remaining fields are blue and framed by a narrow silver stripe, which in turn is surrounded by a wider black stripe with the letters RDK (Reichsbund der Kinderreiche). Undated photo.

Wedding in the FAD, early 1930s

The bride and groom, who are serving in the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD), are received by people in front of the church.

Wedding in the FAD, early 1930s

The bride and groom, who are serving in the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD), are received by a guard of honor in front of the church.

Census in Vienna, 1938

A member of the NS Students' Association during a survey of a large family in Hasenleiten. 450 students volunteer their time in the slums of Greater Vienna to collect data on family, housing and health conditions.

The NSV relief organization "Mother and Child" in Vienna, 1938

The "Hilfswerk Mutter und Kind" (Mother-and-Child Aid Organization) has distributed eleven twin prams to needy mothers in the nursery Wien XVI. Sandleiten, Domanikg.

SS command for the entire SS and police by Heinrich Himmler, 28.10.1939

On 28.10.1939 the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police in the Ministry of the Interior Heinrich Himmler ordered to the men and women of the entire SS and police to beget children even during the war.

Mass wedding ceremony of NSDAP members, 1933

Members of the NSDAP are mass married under the swastika in a registry office in Berlin.

Family with many children having breakfast during the harvest, 1938

A family of farmers from the Morretal (Bayerischer Odenwald) with 6 children have breakfast during the harvest.

Exhibition of the NSV art competition, 1942

The painting "Im Kinderheim" by the Bolzano artist Albert Stolz is shown at the art competition exhibition of the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization in the Berlin Ethnological Museum.

Nazi Germany, Family and Race Policy: Family Policy, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Family and Race Policy: Family Policy

Nazi Germany, Family and Race Policy: Family Policy, 1933-1945

Nazi Germany, Family and Race Policy: Family Policy

House building in Saarland, 1936

One year after the annexation of the Saar families with many children, who had to live in slums for many years, are housed in new settlements.

Spring Day of the German Child, 1934

On the "Spring Day of the German Child", organised by the regional administration of the Berlin NSV, mothers pull their decorated prams to the meeting places where games are organised for the older children.

Wedding procession, 1933

In a wedding procession is drawn a cart with a man-sized thousand-mark bill, an allusion to the marriage loans, followed by a carriage of the tailor guild on which the couple receives the greetings, and several men of the SA.

Pram in a Berlin park, 1935

Numerous baby carriages stand one behind the other at the roadside in a Berlin park, while mothers are having fun with their children.

Parking place for strollers in Berlin, 1937

View of a stroller parking place near a Berlin weekly market.

Pram park in Berlin, 1937

A pram park at a farmer's market in Berlin.

Namensweihe (SS alternative naming ceremony), 1930s

Name giving ceremony of the child of an SS man in front of a portrait of Adolf Hitler and the SS-Standarte "Rhein-Hessen". The ceremony should replace the ecclesiastical baptism. Undated picture.

Construction of the exhibition "Wunder des Lebens", 1935

View of Hall 7 of the Reich Exhibition "Wunder des Lebens" (Miracle of Life). During the exhibition the bells of destiny of the people ring in intervals of five minutes. During this time seven people died and nine children were born in Germany. Left and right are statues depicting father and child and mother and child.

Recreation home for mother and children in Fohrde, 1936

Mothers with their children in the "Recreation home Fohrde for Mother and Children" leave in a joint excursion during the holiday.

Inauguration of the Harry Andersen Park, 1937

Obergruppenfuehrer Dietrich von Jagow accompanies the mother of Harry Anderssen, a deceased member of the SA, to the memorial plaque in the newly inaugurated Harry Anderssen Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Mothers at Buergerbraeu, 1930s

Old mothers received an evening at the Buergerbraeu as birthday present. Undated photo.

Propaganda wagon of The Nazi People's Welfare Organization, 1933

The Nazi welfare organization worked according to the maxim 'For Mother and Child'. This wagon moves through the crowd with the following slogan: 'German mothers open your eyes! We'll show you how the children run.'

Exhibition 'Hereditarily healthy - hereditarily diseased'

Berlin residents at the exhibition 'Hereditarily healthy - hereditarily diseased'. With exhibitions of this kind should be made public the ideas of the Nazis on racial politics and keeping pure their own people.

Visitors in the exhibition "Genetically healthy - genetically sick", 1934

Visitors at the opening of the exhibition "Genetically healthy - genetically sick" in Invalidenstrasse in Berlin. On this photo the visitors stand in front of exhibited pictures showing the theme of "Mother's luck".

Mother's ideal, 1941

This 'gift of honor of the NS Reich warrior federation' will be handed over to women soldiers who get the request program donation of the Reich warrior federation for their children.

Propaganda poster for Mother's Day, 1943

Two hands hold a mother and many children, symbolizing the protection of the family by the state.

The propaganda poster "Joy of Maternity"

This propaganda poster focuses on the mother cult in the Third Reich. The original text of the poster was: "This picture says it all, so are the German mothers. We have to thank the Fuehrer that happiness and contentment prevailed in Germany!" The poster comes from the Nazi propaganda exhibition "Communism without a mask", in which the model German conditions were compared with the "horrifying" states in the USSR. Undated picture. Family and racial politics, women's and mother cult, Nazi ideology, Germany 1933-1945, Nazism

Honoring the mothers of soldiers, 1937

Mothers who have lost more than four sons in the First World War are being honored in Cologne. The commemoration takes place in the Guerzenich. Family and racial politics, women's and mother's cult, Nazi ideology, Germany 1933-1945, National Socialism

Awarding German mothers on Mother's Day, 1942

The picture shows the presentation of the Cross of Honour to a German mother on Mother's Day in 1942. Das Ehrenkreuz wurde im Dritten Reich an kinderreiche Mütter verliehen sowie an Mütter, deren Söhne im Krieg gefallen waren.

Germanic Easter celebration near Bad Fallingbostel, 1934

At a Germanic Easter celebration near Bad Fallingbostel on the night of the first Easter holiday, women silently collect water from a stream, which is supposed to give them beauty and health.

Certificate for family researchers, 1933

Pictured is the identity card no. 547 issued for Eberhard Doege from Akazienstrasse 30, Berlin-Schoeneberg, who has been entered into the list of family researchers, and granted him permission to inspect at the repository of the written monuments placed under protection (parish registers, civil status machinations and other archival materials). The certificate was issued on 1 November 1933 by the expert for racial research at the Reich Ministry of the Interior.

Study of a family tree, 1930s

Family members look at the pedigree of their family on an outstretched card on the floor. On the wall hangs a picture with a coat of arms, beneath the inscription Dorpe. Undated picture.

Genealogical tables in Oldenburg, 1930s

Girls chat below runed genealogical tables. Undated picture.

Special exhibition of the Reichsnaehrstand at the Green Week, 1936

Before the opening of the Green Week on Kaiserdamm the special exhibition of the Reichsnaehrstand is presented. The painting on the left is entitled "Peasant or Worker", the one on the right "Work is a service to the people" and the slogans "Love for the people and family enables peasant and worker to achieve the highest performance" and "The same blood heritage is the reason for the same work ethic".

Muster for the Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List), 1942

In Kreis (district) Konitz in West Prussia the so-called "Zwischenschichtler" (in-betweeners are mustered for Germanization and classification in the minority list of the SS-Rassen- und Siedlungshauptamt (SS Race and Settlement Main Office). Even the "Nordic appearance" played an important role for the people concerned.

Race theory education, 1941

Farmers who had been relocated from the Baltic States in the Warthegau are taught in race and genetics. The left chart deals with the "inheritance of musical talent" using the example of the Bach family, the right with the "Formation of gender and inheritance of a predisposition that is linked to the sex-determining chromosome 8, for example, red-green blindness or hemophilia".

Racial policy education provided by the NSV, 1939

With the help of a display board (headline: "The Races of the German People") is explained the difference in head shape between the Nordic-Germanic race and other races to participants of a racial-political lesson in an apprentice home of the National Socialist People's Welfare Organisation in Muelheim an der Ruhr.

Franz Hueber at a race policy seminar, 1938

Franz Hueber (in party uniform) in conversation with participants during a photo session, at the opening of the first racial policy course for Austrian judicial officers in the Reich School of the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy at the Griebnitzsee in Neubabelsberg.

Unterfeldmeister ("staff sergeant") of the Labor Service, 1934

Profile portrait of a uniformed staff sergeant of the Reich Labor Service.

Portrait of a farmer at the Green Week, 1934

Ideal portrait of a German farmer in the hall of honour of the Green Week in Berlin.

Infant care course at the Reichsbraeuteschule Schwanenwerder, 1938

During an infant care course is discussed the clothing of infants and toddlers at the Reich Bridal School of the Deutsches Frauenwerk on the island of Schwanenwerder near Berlin.

Reichsbraeuteschule Schwanenwerder, 1930s.

Daily mail is distributed at the Reich Bridal School of the Deutsches Frauenwerk on the island of Schwanenwerder near Berlin. Undated photo.

Reichsbraeuteschule Schwanenwerder, 1930s.

View of the house and participants of the Reichsbraeuteschule ("Reich Bridal School") on Schwanenwerder. The school educates SS, SA and Wehrmacht members in home economics, educational issues, baby care, home design, etc. Undated photo.

Common room of the Reichsbraeuteschule Schwanenwerder, 1930s

View of the fireside in the common room of the Reich Bridal School of the Deutsches Frauenwerk on the island of Schwanenwerder near Berlin. Undated photo.

Common room of the Reich Bride School Schwanenwerder, 1938

View of the fireplace corner in the common room of the Reich Bride Schools (Braeuteschule) of the Deutsches Frauenwerk on the island Schwanenwerder.

Sun porch of the Reich Bridal School Schwanenwerder, 1938

View of the Reichsbraeuteschule Schwanenwerder during a lunch break on the sunny veranda, where several women are sunbathing in deckchairs.

Lunch break at the Reichsbraeuteschule Schwanenwerder, 1939

At the Reich Bridal School Schwanenwerder operated by the Deutsches Frauenwerk, two women look smilingly into the camera on the sunny veranda during their lunch break.

Reading room of the Reich Bridal School Schwanenwerder, 1938

View into the reading and writing room of the Reichsbraeuteschule (Reich Bridal School) Schwanenwerder of the Deutsches Frauenwerk.

Reich Bridal School Schwanenwerder, 1933-1938

Training for mothers, 1930s

During a mothers' training the young women sing accompanied by violin and flute. Undated picture.

Awarding of the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, 1941

Every year on Mother's Day, mothers of large families were awarded the Mutterkreuz (Mother's Cross) in the presence of NSDAP officials in the new auditorium of the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Presentation of the Mutterkreuz (Mother's Cross), 1942

Every year on Mother's Day mothers of large families were awarded with the Mother's Cross in the presence of officials of the NSDAP in the new auditorium of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Mother's Day, 1940

On Mother's Day, a mother, who has been awarded a Mother's Cross, receives a military letter from her son. There is a portrait of him on the table.

Book of honour of the Reichsbund der Kinderreichen (Reich's Union of Large Families), 1939

A member of the Reich's Union of Large Families (Reichsbund der Kinderreichen) look at a just received book of honour in Kaffee Leon at Lehniner Platz in Charlottenburg, which was handed over to them by the leader of District 2 of the NSDAP, Meyer. The woman carries the Cross of Honour of the German Mother (Mutterkreuz).

National Socialist Propaganda photo of Aryans during the harvest, 1939

Propaganda photo which shows a city girl and a German soldier together helping farmers gather the harvest.

School building of the 'Race Policy Office' on Griebnitzsee, 1938

The photo was taken at the opening of the first Racial Policy course of Austrian judicial officers in the 'Reich School of the Racial Policy Office of the Nazi Party'.

Visitors in front of exhibition boards in the exhibition 'Genetically healthy-Genetically sick', 1934

The photo was taken at the exhibition opening. The exhibition boards show statistic tables. The exhibition 'Genetically healthy-Genetically sick' took place in Invalidenstrasse.

Nordic-looking youth

A photo of a young woman and two young men who embody the Nordic racial ideal of the National Socialists.

Exhibition of Nazi racial policy in Berlin, 1934

Visitors at an exhibition of Nazi racial ideology in front of a display of genetics.

Dr. Abel in a lesson about race, 1936

Docent Dr. Abel at the board shows the difference between the Nordic and the Asian eyelid, to illustrate the Nazi racial ideology.

Posters from the exhibition 'Bolshevism Unmasked', 1937

Two posters from the Propaganda Exhibition 'Bolshevism Unmasked' in 1937 in the Reichstag building in Berlin. One has the title 'Germany's Future', showing Aryan-looking young girls playing sports and boys at a summer camp, and the other's title is 'Children without Childhood' showing neglected children from the Soviet Union.

Exhibit of Genetics and Eugenics

The exhibition in the Berlin Central Institute for Education and Instruction presented the inheritance of different qualities, especially deformities and malformations and the inheritance of "degenerate" forms. "The Genetic Piano" was equipped with buttons, when they were pressed individual parts were lit up. In this way, the correlation of inheritance or hybrids in plants could be observed.

Exhibit 'The Jew and France', 1941

In front of objects from the exhibit 'The Jew and France' a sum of 100,000 Francs taken from the entry fees was handed over. The money is for the families of French prisoners of war.

Deformities exhibited in the 'Exhibit of Genetics and Eugenics'

The exhibited objects show deformities, mostly the types that appear in the newborns of parents who have suffered from syphilis. The exhibited pieces are placed under the text: 'The sins of the fathers take their revenge on the children until the 3rd and 4th generation'.

Exhibition pieces of the "Exhibit of Genetics and Eugenics"

The exhibition occurred in the Central Institute for Education and Instruction. It presented the inheritance of different qualities, especially deformities and malformations and the inheritance of "degenerate" forms.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart at the opening of the propaganda exhibition 'The Eternal Jew', Vienna, 1938 (b/w photo)

Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946) was a Nazi official in pre-Anschluss Austria, the Third Reich and wartime Germany in Poland and the Netherlands, At the Nuremberg Trials he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and later executed, Reichsstatthalter - Imperial Lieutenant,

Lebensborn (Fount of Life), 1940

The picture shows a maternity home of the nationalsocialist Lebensborn organization, located in Steinhoering in the district of ebersberg near Munich.

A Hitler Youth Boy Looks at the 'Fuehrer's Ancestor Chart,' 1937

The Ancestor Chart of Adolf Hitler was shown in an exhibition titled 'Sippenforschung in Schule und Haus' (Genealogy at School and at Home), hosted by the Berlin Stadthaus.

The Lebensborn maternity home in Upper Bavaria, 1940

The photo shows one of the maternity homes of the Lebensborn" association, that was run by the SS, in Steinhoering at Ebersberg in Bavaria. The Lebensborn was originally founded as a maternity home for unmarried mothers but after the war was intensely attacked because of its racial political abduction action of foreign children."

Mother cross (Mutterkreuz), 1939

The award 'Cross of Honour of the German mother', which is awarded in three stages.

Awarding the Mother Cross, 1943

A Nazi party functionary awards a Mother Cross to a mother. The photo was taken at a celebration of district V in Berlin in the Litzmann School for Mother's Day 1943. 100 mothers were decorated with the 'Honor Cross of the German Mother'. 10 gold and 5 silver medals were awarded. The mothers were presented with flowers by girls of the BDM (League of German Girls).

The Cross of Honour of the German Mother

The Cross of Honour of the German Mother was a state decoration and civil order of merit conferred by the government of the German Reich to honour a Reichsdeutsche German mother for exceptional merit to the German nation

Mother with children and a baby carriage in Berlin, 1942

A mother pushes a baby carriage accompanied by her son and daughter in uniforms of the party organizations - she is wearing the Mother Cross around her neck. The photo was taken during the presentation of Mother Crosses in the new hall of Friedrich Wilhelms University.

The presentation of the Mother Cross in Berlin, 1941

Every year mothers of large families were distinguished with the Mother Cross in the presence of NSDAP functionaries in the new aula of the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin.

Awarding the Mother Cross in Berlin, 1942

Mothers awarded the Mother Cross take part in a celebration on Mother's Day 1942. Mothers of large families were bestowed the award in the presence of NSDAP functionaries in the new aula of the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.

Awarding the Mother Cross in Berlin 1941

Every year for Mother's Day, mothers of large families are awarded the Mother Cross in the presence of NSDAP functionaries in the new aula of the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin.

Member of the 'Reich League for Large Families' collect for the Winter Relief Program, 1938

Donation collectors carry a banner that reads: 'The children of large families are collecting for the Winter Relief Program' on the corner of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse. It is the 5th Reich Street Collection for the Winter Relief Program.

Large family 1936

Mother with her seven children at the bed of the youngest.

Infant and maternity home 'Mother and Child'

The infant and maternity home 'Mother and Child' in Hohenlychen operated by the Nazi People's Welfare organization.

Mother with her child, 1941

Woman preparing a meal at the kitchen table. The little girl follows her mother's hand movement.

Mother-child holiday home in Fohrde, 1936

Handwork, reading and exchanging thoughts in a Mother-child holiday home in Fohrde. The Nazi family policy encouraged holidays for mothers and children.

Mother and child in Germany, 1934

Mother and child, photo for Mother's Day, 1934.

Car with a banner of the National Socialist People's Welfare

An event of the National Socialist People's Welfare on a so-called 'Casserole Sunday'. The banner reads: 'German mothers, open your eyes! We'll show you how the child runs.'

Frauen mit Kinderwagen auf einem Spaziergang in Berlin, 1934

A vast number of women and mothers walk through a park in Berlin.

Rudolf Diels in the Borgermoor concentration camp, 1933

Ministerialrat Rudolf Diels, Head of the Gestapo, gives a speech before prisoners of the preventive custody camp Borgermoor and Esterwegen in the Emsland on the occasion of the release of prisoners for the Christmas of 1933.

Sorting entries for the 'Honor Book of Large German Families', 1937

At the 'Reichs League for Large Families' women sort entries for the first edition of the 'Honor Book of Large German Families'.

March for Day of the Mother and Child, 1934

The Oranienburg local branch of the Nazi Party People's Welfare (NSV) organized a Day of the Mother and Child with mothers pushing strollers and older children walking on Unter den Linden in Berlin.

March for Day of the Mother and Child, 1934

A wagon of the Nazi People's Welfare (NSV), Berlin Mitte local branch, during a propaganda event. A banner hangs on the wagon with the text: 'Promoting the people's health, promotes the parents and children!'

Dining room of the Reich's Mother School, 1936

View of the dining room of the Reich's Mother School of the Nazi Women's League in Schulstrasse in Berlin.

Fundraiser for the 'Day of the German national tradition', 1939

On the 'Day of the German national tradition' a fundraiser sells glass badges in front of the Berlin city hall to a mother who attended the event with their child who is standing in a pram.

Mother with her child in the sandbox, 1934

A mother plays with her child. She wears the party badge of the NSDAP on the lapel of her coat.

Visitors in the "Hereditarily healthy - Hereditarily sick" exhibition, 1934

Visitors to the "Hereditarily healthy - Hereditarily sick" exhibition in Invalidenstrassse 138 in Berlin 1934. Already in 1934 Nazi racial-political exhibitions all over Germany contrasted the blessings of hereditarily healthy children with inferior offspring.

Mother with child, 1938

Child riding on the shoulders of the mother.

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