The saddest thing about that system is how obedient all those children where. History will speak of this theft of independent thought as the great crime of socialism. It is was the children who suffered most as they were robbed of their very childhood. There is not much to defend in thought control. Not he, nor other Germans are unaware of the cost of those programs.
Most people know that to justify the means via the end can lead to a tunnel without exit.
Such discussion is a reminder of the recurring commentary about how much good the Hitler regime did. Somehow we tend to easily put aside the pall of the bad and the ugly in order to find a shining ray of good to justify our blindness. Having children was almost a duty to the state. Again, reminders of the past. Rewards were plentiful in both the old and the new dictatorships.