Discussion on Women's Rights and Birth Rates

When women have been transformed in recent years,

they are beginning to see that they are not happier as a result of being given more rights,

but fewer duties.

They now realize that the right to be elected to public office at the expense of the right to life,

motherhood, and her daily bread is not a good trade.

A characteristic of the modern era is a rapidly declining birth rate in our big cities.

In 1900, 2 million babies were born in Germany.

Now the number has fallen to 1 million.

This drastic decline is most evident in the nation's capital.

In the last 14 years, Berlin's birth rate has become the lowest of any European city.

By 1955, without emigration,

it will have only about 3 million inhabitants.

The government is determined to halt this decline of the family and the resulting impoverishment of our blood.

There must be a fundamental change.

The liberal attitude toward the family and the child is responsible for Germany's rapid decline.

We today must begin worrying about an aging population.

there were seven children for each elderly person.

Today, it is only four.

If current trends continue, by 1988,

the ratio will be one to one.

These statistics say it all.

They are the best proof that if Germany continues along its current path,

it will end in an abyss with breathtaking speed.

We can almost determine the decade when Germany collapses because of depopulation.

We are not willing to stand aside and watch the collapse of our national life and the destruction of the blood we have inherited.

The National Revolutionary Government has the duty to rebuild the nation on its original foundations,

to transform the life and work of the woman so that it once again best serves the national good.

It intends to eliminate the social inequalities so that once again,

the life of our people and the future of our people and the immortality of our blood is assured.

I welcome this exhibition,

whose goal is to explain and teach and to reduce or eliminate harm to the individual and the whole. people.

This serves the nation and popular enlightenment,

and to support it is one of the happiest duties of the new government.