The Nazi’s attempted to mold Germany into what they considered “The Master Race” during their control of the country. Public health measures to control reproduction and marriage aimed at strengthening the German “national citizen” by eliminating biologically threatening genes from the population.
(Left) The German Hygiene Museum was founded in 1912 by Karl August Lingner, a manufacturer of hygiene products, as a "public venue for healthcare education", following the first International Hygiene Exhibition in 1911
During the Third Reich the museum came under the influence of the Nazis, who used it to produce material propagandizing their racial ideology and promoting Eugenics.
Many German doctors and scientists who had supported racial hygiene ideas before 1933 embraced the Nazi’s importance on Eugenics, so they could explore new career opportunities with additional funding for research.
(Left) An Aryan Skull Measurement Device.
Adolf Hitler’s government silenced critics of the Nazi Parties Eugenics and supporters of individual human rights. After all educational, cultural institutions and the media came under Nazi control, racial Eugenics flooded German society on all levels.
The Jewish population, considered “alien” was purged from universities, scientific research facilities, hospitals and public health care.
The Jewish population, considered “alien” was purged from universities, scientific research facilities, hospitals and public health care.
Also echoing the Nazi’s Eugenics was a political campaign to help fight Germany’s falling birthrates. The Nazi’s officially banned marriages between the “Pure Germans” and people deemed “Genetically Unfit”.
Getting married and creating a strong Nazi family was a prime principal during the Nazi Era in Germany. During a speech on September 8, 1934, Adolf Hitler proclaimed, “In my state, the mother is the most important citizen”.
The Nazi regime actually awarded a bronze “Honor Cross of German Motherhood” to “fit” Germanic Aryan women who had four or five children, a silver version to women who had six or seven children and a gold version of the cross to women who had eight or more children.