Nazis in midst of drive for more German children
By Nat A. Barrows
Sixth of a series
Stockholm, Sweden –
The Nazi Party is not mincing words about its desire for more German children.
Seeking in every possible way to keep National Socialist ideas alive after Germany’s defeat, party leaders have now devised yet another plan for increasing the number of marriages inside Germany. They are dividing prospective brides and grooms by job categories.
If Greta, unmarried and lonely, appeals to the Nazis’ new marriage bureau, called the German Family, she can obtain permission to exchange her war factory job for a similar job in another city – where she may find a husband.
As it is working out Greta probably will be sent there, anyway, if the German Family officials decide that she should be contributing something more for the fatherland than compulsory factory work.
In advocating more legal marriages, the Nazis have not abandoned their protective status for children born out of wedlock. They use forthright propaganda reassuring unmarried mothers that their children will have all the benefits and privileges of other German children – providing they are “Aryans.”
For a country which long ago utterly abandoned every semblance of a moral standard, it is a curious development to find the Nazis now urging more legal marriages. Actually, this is partly due to their desperate need to halt decreasing efficiency among factory workers, as well as an insidious scheme to perpetuate Nazi political power.
By having husbands and wives working in the same factory, there will be “more incentive for good work and a better understanding of the job… and more happiness,” the Nazis explain.
This newly-formed organization, the German Family, cooperates with the National Socialist race political bureau in maintaining a letter center for lonely men and women, and in sorting the prospects by jobs. They are not connected with the letter writing activities of the League of Lonely War Women.
The League of Lonely War Women bluntly tells the soldiers by letter, circular, or word of mouth how its members want to fulfill the longings of lonely nights, knowing, they say, that even the bravest soldier needs tenderness.