How did the Nazi Marriage Subsidy Law try to increase the birth rate of people the Nazis called Aryan?
The Marriage Subsidy Law of July 1933 was a component of the Nazi regime's broader efforts to increase the population of those they deemed "Aryan" through the pseudoscience of eugenics.
To stimulate the birth rate, the law provided government loans to newly married couples. These loans were designed to be forgiven incrementally with the birth of each additional child, effectively incentivizing families to have more children to reduce their financial debt.12
This policy was part of a larger, morally reprehensible framework aimed at "reconstructing" the German race. By idealizing motherhood as a service to the state and implementing these financial incentives, the Nazis sought to expand the population they considered racially desirable while simultaneously using coercive measures, such as the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health, to prevent those they deemed "unworthy" from propagating.12