MUTTERKREUZ MOTHER'S CROSS: This unusual award was introduced to boost the Third Reich's population, as well as to imprint the warped ideals of National Socialism onto the role of motherhood. Its origins can be found in the Fuhrer's relationship with his own mother

When Klara Hitler died from breast cancer in December 1907, just four days before Christmas, her devoted son Adolf was devastated. The Jewish family doctor, Eduard Bloch, visited the family [...]