In Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Mussolini’s Italy, all three regimes emphasized the national importance of genetics and increased birth rates as a state resource. In Hoffman and Timm’s chapter on Utopian Biopolitics, Nazi eugenics that promoted selective racial hygiene and purity is contrasted with Soviet non-selective pronatalism.¹ Wilson analyzes the woman’s role in Fascism in his article separately.²

Each regime attempted to characterize the woman’s role as a prolific mother in different ways.… Read the rest here