How successful would Nazi natalist policies be if they won the war?

How successful would Nazi natalist policies be if they won the war?

  • Not successful

    Votes: 7 29.2%
  • Moderately successful

    Votes: 13 54.2%
  • Very successful

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • Total voters
    24
In a Fatherland/AANW scenario where the Reich controls everything from France to the Urals, how successful would Nazi natalist policies be within a few decades?

IOTL the Reich had an award for mothers who had at least 4 kids (Bronze Cross), 6 kids (Silver Cross), 8 kids (Gold Cross), and a planned Diamond Cross for mothers who had either 12 or 16 kids. Not to mention the numerous financial incentives offered as well.

Would they be successful in indoctrinating the oncoming generations of girls and women into believing that raising large families was not only good but their ideological duty?

How many children on average would women have?

What would their number of births per 1000 people become?

In 1933 Nazi Germany had a birth rate of 14.7 and in 1939 it was 20.4. The lowest in the world currently is 6.60 births per 1000 (Monaco) and the highest is 44.80 (Niger).
 
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Remember in otl the medal given to women with more children was called 'The order of the rabbit'
That's not true it was called the cross of honour of the german mother. It came in three class bronze silver and gold.
It was not unique to germany since for exemple France has a similar decoration called medal of the french family since 1920 also in three class.
 

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Kaninchenorden was a nickname for the medal, not the official name. It however shows how many people saw it. People are still people, and the ability of the state to indoctrinate them is rather limited, despite what propagandists want to believe. At best, you can make them say the right things, not believe them (and seriously act on them).
 
A lot of their policies involved forcing people in Western Europe who wouldn't admit to be Germans to go settle in the East, while taking the Children of Poles, Czechs, and Balts. They would have went through a lot of trouble to mix people up enough to raise the 'German' population by a couple million, while keeping women out of jobs so they would focus on bearing more children, helped with the use of Ukranian women who would also be sexually exploited by the man of the house. Or that was the way it was assumed. There is also the possibility of breeding farms but.... Yah, I think that when the SS told their men or men in the German army that they should have sex with racially valuable women in Eastern Europe that they had to quickly recant that as their was risk of mutiny by the men immediately realizing the SS would want to use their own wives back in Germany to up the birth rate. Which, since the soldiers were stuck fighting the war, would have to be done by whoever is left behind.
 
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