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the most beutifull medal in the world is the mother cross

In the days before the invention of “an appearance on The View,” important political figures needed to find inventive ways to pander to moms and frumps. Adolf Hitler was no exception, and on this day in 1938, he awarded his first Mother’s Cross, a medal given out to encourage German women to get pregnant. (This incentive was eventually phased-out thanks the popular and more-reliable “Oktoberfest Drunken Blackout.”)

From HSN’s Nazi Jewellery Hour
Hitler decided that the cross was to be given out every year on August 12th, his mother Klara’s birthday. Klara died when Hitler was a teenager, leaving him with abandonment issues which no doubt affected his personal relationships. Otherwise, he seemed pretty together.

A gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five kids. Nowadays, women with a lot of children are not given medals, but awarded their very own programs on The Discovery Channel about their somewhat creepy families.
Only women with pure Aryan children could achieve such awards, which were usually placed next to their “Blondes Have More Fun” coffee mugs. And members of The Hitler Youth were instructed to salute mothers seen wearing these crosses, which led to the group’s universal fondness for MILFS (Mothers I’d Like To Fondly Salute