1920

Germany’s National Pension Law sought to protect war disabled for their economic disadvantages and, unlike Britain, supplemented pensions when veterans married and had children: “ . . . the central objective of German welfare programs for the disabled was rehabilitation. . . . Unlike the British government . . . German authorities sought from the beginning of the war to return even the most severely disabled to work, preferably to their former occupations” (Cohen, 154-55). Law of the Severely Disabled required business and government offices that employed at least 25 people to hire the incapacitated as at least 2% of their workforce (157ff.).