1933 - Population

Population

Adolf Hitler outlaws abortion, orders the execution of abortionists, suppresses information about contraception, and encourages production of more "Aryans" by offering cash incentives to Germans who will marry and cash awards for each new infant born (see Lebensborn, 1935). Nazi authorities carry out 56,000 sterilizations of the "unfit" this year and will have sterilized 250,000 by 1940. German birthrates will increase in the next few years, but so will birthrates elsewhere as the world begins to climb out of economic depression.

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