Mother's Day 1939

➽ The Sunday Challenge (TSC) - We need a little challenge hey!
It's Mothers Day so lets honor our Mom's, Mum's, wives, sisters, any female that may be or wants to be a Mom. So I think we need a few words ON the picture, not under it.

All images MUST be Vertical images, twice or more tall as they are wide. This was stokers idea.. don't blame me!
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➽ In Germany the Mother's Day was established 1922/23 by the German Flower Shopkeeper Association with posters "Ehret die Mutter" (Honor the mother) in the shop windows and - unpolitically - celebrated as a day of flower wishes.

With the Nazi party in power during 1933–1945, the situation changed radically. The promotion of Mother's Day increased in many European countries, including the UK and France. From the position of the German Nazi government, the role of mothers was to give healthy children to the German nation. The Nazi party's intention was to create a pure "Aryan race" according to Nazi eugenics.
In 1933 Mother's Day was declared a public holiday and for the first time, on the third sunday of the month of May 1934, celebrated as a memorial and honorary day for German mothers.

In 1938 was introduced the "Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter" (Honorary Cross of the German Mother) which was awarded for the first time on Mother's Day on 21 May 1939.

Today Mother's Day continues to be one of the most commercially successful occasions. It's possible that the holiday would have withered over time without the support and continuous promotion of the florist industries and other commercial industries...
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➽The Photo was taken on Mother's Day 1939 in the allotment of my grandparents. I've scanned and processed it for TSC