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THE MOTHERS OF THE ‘MASTER RACE’

According to Joseph Goebbels, “the mission of women” was to be “beautiful and to bring children into the world”. Consequently, in the interests of creating and promoting an ‘Aryan race’ the Nazis dispensed with traditional Christian-based morality and instead focused on ensuring that children were racially pure – regardless of whether their parents were married or not – and encouraging ‘racially unsuitable’ or childless couples to

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