Links I consider reputable on this subject, read with caution, obviously:
www.holocaust.org.uk/gold-mothers...
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
muzeumdziecipolskich.pl/cross-of-hon...
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Mother Jones has some of them listed, they get ickier.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A Medal of Honor for mothers is only one of a few creepy AF ideas floated pretty recently in an effort to "promote large families" which really is a polite way to say force women to birth as many children as possible for indoctrination.
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Because like all the policies that a certain someone
🥸 loved to enact back in the 1930s and 40s (Stalin did this too, I just know less about it) DJT and all his creepy pro-natalist-christian-nationalist-friends want to do that too!
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Nearly 5 million of these awards were presented in the 6 years that they existed. Part propaganda, part practical, these awards pushed German families to be bigger and to solely promote Not-c ideals.

How is that like DJT and co now?
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The medal of honor was for German mom's who had birthed five or more children, with three classes signifying the number of children she had brought up in service to Germany -- which really means to the 3rd R—ch.
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*Links at end because REPUTABLE SOURCES ARE CRITICAL in times of misinformation and propaganda*

So, Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter, what's that?

Well, it translates to the Cross of Honour of the German Mother and it was instituted in late 1938.

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What an asshole!

Susan Collin’s genuinely is awful.