Nazi marriage loans rewarded reproduction to breed and control women
Evidence
In the extreme instance, again, the Law for the Reduction of Unemployment introduced by Hitler in 1933 extended marriage loans to citizens the conditions for repayment of which they could satisfy by producing children, As Burleigh and Wipperman (1991: 46) note, this law was designed to effect three principal outcomes: to multiply a “pure” German population, to reduce unemployment of men, most notably, by forcing women to return to their traditional maternal roles. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 65
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to fertility politics and demographic weaponization claims in the Africa chapter and to the ‘women as reproductive vessels’ theme in racial states — a dark parallel to the ‘demographic weapons’ framing. — connects to: Nazi ideology re-subjugated already emancipated German women through the mother-state bond — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 283