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Many of their propaganda ideas were modelled on the efforts of the French, who issued a medal “for the French family” to productive mothers—bronze for five children, gold for ten—who did their patriotic
duty in the aftermath of the Great War’s bloodletting.

Even the highly paternalistic liberalism which Geneva [league of nations] embodied reeked of humanitarian weakness to the Nazis. The stronger race must prevail over the weaker; it would thus win the right to impose its own wishes upon the loser. It followed that legal arrangements were purely matters of convenience, to be followed or repudiated as the interests of the Volk dictated.