Germany of the Weimar Republic was one of the most sexually progressive countries in the world, but that all changed in 1933 when Hitler came to power. The Nazis enacted one of the most sexually oppressive programs the world has seen, all aimed at raising the fertility rate. Why did Hitler envision not so much a welfare state as a daycare state? Find out in this episode, the first in our super-deep dive series Sex in the Third Reich.
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