二战史上希特勒制定的“母亲十字勋章”
1938年的8月12日,希特勒颁布制定了“母亲十字勋章”奖励办法,鼓励德国妇女生育更多的孩子。获奖的妈妈们将在每年的8月12日,也就是希特勒母亲生日的那一天获得勋章。德意志帝国需要强壮和不断增长的人口,从很早就开始鼓励夫妇多生育。德国女青年团(希特勒青年团的分支)团员在年满18岁后,女孩子们便具备了参与“信仰与美”的特殊团体的资格,这个团体专门将团员们培养成为理想的母亲,其中一个指标就是生育能力。此外,(希特勒)为了纪念他深爱的母亲克拉拉的生日,每年的这一天会颁发勋章——金质勋章授予七个孩子的母亲,银质勋章授予六个孩子的母亲,铜质勋章授予五个孩子的母亲。 '母亲十字' 金质勋章
'母亲十字'银质勋章
Hitler institutes the Mother's Cross
On this day in 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother's Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitler's mother's birthday.
The German Reich needed a robust and growing population and encouraged couples to have large families. It started such encouragement early. Once members of the distaff wing of the Hitler Youth movement, the League of German Girls, turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, in honor of his beloved mother, Klara, and in memory of her birthday, a gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five.
德意志母亲十字奖章(Cross of Honour of the German Mother),德文为“Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter”。希特勒采取了许多社会措施来鼓励纳粹德国的人口增长,其中一项措施就是提倡发扬纳粹的“为母之道”,这项措施通过铺天盖地的宣传攻势来要求妇女们尽可能地扩大她们家庭人口数量。1938年12月16日,希特勒制定了一项对所谓“为母之道”的新的奖励措施,尤其是对人口数量众多的家庭将予以重奖。这项奖励就是为拥有相应资格的妇女颁发德意志母亲十字奖章,它由Franz Berberich设计,分为三个等级:铜制(三级)、银质(二级)和金质(一级),此外还有金质钻石级别需待考证。