Choose TWO of the following areas that the Nazis tried to implement their ideas: Increased Births; Improved welfare; Reduced employment; Reduced education; Involvement in women's organizations.
Using those two areas above, complete the following:
Area 1: Increased Bearths
Key Measures Attempted:
-Financial incentives
-improved maternity services
-Higher taxes on childless couples
-restriction on contraception info
-tigher penalties on abortion
-sterilisation of undesirables
-encouragement of births outside of marriage
Successes birth rate rose, but slowly declined (1933-1939)
Limitations and Failures: Eugenic policies limited population potential, growth may have been due to economic recovery not social policies.
Area 2: Welfare
Key Measures Attempted: National Socialist Welfare Organization, expansion of health offices especially in poor and rural areas (improved sanitation, preventative medecine, genetica and racial care). Improved child-care facilities, especially for working mothers.
Successes: Infant Mortality rates dropped. 1933: 7.7% 1936: 6.6%
Limitations and Failures: Welfare was closely linked to genetic policies.
