Germany:German public television has fired one of its leading presenters for apparently praising Third Reich family policies.
Eva Herman suggested that modern German politicians anxious to push for a return to traditional family values could do worse than look to the Nazis.
"It was an awful time in which completely crazy politicians led the German people into ruin, we all know that," said Ms Herman.
"But there was good too, like valuing mothers, children, families and family solidarity."
Ms Herman said yesterday she meant to praise family policies encouraged in the past, including in the Third Reich, which had been destroyed by the student revolution of the "1968 generation".
Family policy was at the heart of Nazi ideology and women were awarded the Honour Cross of the German Mother for having at least four children.
Bild am Sonntaghit back in a livid editorial, arguing women in the Third Reich were "reduced to child-bearing machines . . . so that Hitler would get enough soldiers for his murderous wars".
In a public statement, Volker Herres, television director of North-German Broadcasting (NDR), said Ms Herman's writings were making it increasingly difficult to book guests for her television talk show.
"Ms Herman is free to continue her 'motherhood crusade' but this is no longer compatible with the role of a public television host," he wrote.
Last year, Ms Herman lost her newsreader job on Germany's Tagesschaunews bulletin after writing a book calling on women to leave the workplace to men and go home to have more babies.