What Did Hitler Do To Encourage The Rearing Of Children?

The ' Law for the Encouragement of Marriage' tried to encourage married couples to have large families. They did this by giving all newly married couples a loan of 1000 marks. When the first child was born, they could keep a quarter of the money. When the second child was born, they could keep the second quarter. When the third child was born, they could keep the third quarter and on the birth of the fourth child, they could keep the whole amount.
Because of this law, many women stayed at home. Within months of Hitler's rise to power, many women doctors and civil servants were sacked from their jobs. Then women lawyers and teachers were dismissed. By 1939, there were few women left in Professional jobs.
It meant the only thing that women were actively encouraged to do was to have children. Every 12 August, the birthday of Hitler's mother, the Motherhood cross was awarded to the women who had the most children.

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