The palace at Kleßheim on the outskirts of Salzburg is today a casino but it has a dark past. Hitler would use the place to conduct his affairs when staying at the Berghof in Southern Bavaria. When ...

Butler noted that 3 million women received the medal from 1939-1944. Jews were excluded. And that's not the only such regime to try the idea. "The fascist Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin ...

France has issued a similar medal since 1920, but the idea really picked up steam when Adolf Hitler first conferred a similar honor on German mothers of eight or more children in 1939, calling it ...

In 1930s Nazi Germany, Hitler introduced a similar "Cross of Honour of the German Mother," a decorative medal that honored "children-rich" mothers of German heritage, with the exception of German ...

At the height of Adolf Hitler's murderous reign, he brought in a medal known as the Cross of Honour of the German Mother. Also known as the Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter, it was a blue cross ...