“The 1941 pension reform also introduced mandatory health insurance, the lack of which had been considered a “persistent societal shortcoming, threatening the welfare of pensioners.” Monthly contributions were set at one reichsmark with exemptions for widows and orphans. Previously, retirees had had to apply for state relief assistance or take out private insurance, which few of them did. The new regulations took effect in August and November of 1941.”
“Significantly, the will to achieve social reform was strongest among those leaders within the Nazi Party who were also the most actively involved in pushing forward the agenda of ethnic genocide.”
Gotz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War and the Nazi Welfare State, Holt Paperbacks, 2008. p. 56.