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Propaganda
"German experts developed plans to insure cooperation. On 27 April
1942 in Berlin, Professor Wetzel issued a memorandum that included
the following:
Every propaganda means, especially the press, radio, and
movies, as well as pamphlets, booklets, and lectures,
must be used to instill in the Russian population the
idea that it is harmful to have several children. We must
emphasize the expenses that children cause, the good
things that people could have had with the money spent on
them. We could also hint at the dangerous effect of child-
bearing on a woman's health.
Paralleling such propaganda, a large-scale campaign would
be launched in favor of contraceptive devices. A
contraceptive industry must be established. Neither the
circulation and sale of contraceptives nor abortions must
be prosecuted.
It will even be necessary to open special institutions
for abortion, and to train midwives and nurses for this
purpose. The population will practice abortion all the
more willingly if these institutions are competently
operated. The doctors must be able to help out there
being any question of this being a breach of their
professional ethics. Voluntary sterilization must also be
recommended by propaganda.[10]
Local physicians were to be told that these abortions were for the
woman's benefit. A decree issued by Himmler in March 1943 stressed
this point:
The Russian physicians or the Russian Medical
Association, which must not be informed of this order,
are to be told in individual cases that the pregnancy is
being interrupted for reasons of social distress. It must
be explained in such a way that no conclusions to the
existence of a definite order may be drawn.[11]
German authorities were careful to note, however, that as long as
births could be prevented, sexual behavior need not be restricted. A
1944 memorandum noted:
In order to round out his propaganda in a practical way
contraceptives should be quietly distributed (with the
Reich bearing the cost). There is no harm in leaving a
valve open to the natural desires of the persons of alien
blood as long as this will not interfere with cutting off
the flow of reproduction among these people of alien
race.[12]
Promoting Pornography
In practice, German authorities went far beyond "leaving a valve
open" for sexual promiscuity. They deliberately flooded Eastern
Europe with pornography in order to destroy it culturally,
politically and spiritually. One historian describes the process this
way:
The German Propaganda Office. . . was supposed to
organize or sponsor Polish burlesque shows and publish
cheap literature, strongly erotic in nature. . . . to
keep the masses on a low level and to divert their
interest from political aspirations. These projects for
degeneration and moral debasement were actually realized
in the larger Polish cities. . . . German success in this
effort was significant enough to become a target of the
Polish Underground. The latter used to dispatch some
special "punishing squads" which overran some of the ill-
famed Variety Theaters and took disciplinary measures
against the Polish collaborators in the programs.[13]"
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