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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.
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Völkischer Beobachter (December 3, 1944)
Eisenhowers letzte Heeresreserven bei Aachen:
Auch die 1. Kanadische Armee soll bluten
Von unserem Berichterstatter in Portugal
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Führer HQ (December 3, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Die erbitterten Kämpfe im Westen kosten den Feind, vor allem die Nordamerikaner, steigende Verluste an Menschen und Material. Nach den jetzt vorliegenden Meldungen machten unsere Truppen im November über 5.200 Gefangene. Die Zahl der Toten und Verwundeten des Feindes beträgt ein Vielfaches. 1.514 Panzer und Panzerspähwagen wurden von uns vernichtet oder erbeutet, 82 feindliche Tiefflieger durch Verbände des Heeres abgeschossen. Nordöstlich Geilenkirchen stehen Panzertruppen und Grenadiere in schweren Abwehrkämpfen mit feindlichen Kräften, die in schmalen Abschnitten in das Hauptkampffeld einbrechen konnten. An der Schlachtfront zwischen Eschweiler und Düren wurden durch kraftvolle eigene Angriffe wichtige Höhen wieder genommen und unsere Stellungen vorverlegt. Die Regimenter der 8. amerikanischen Division, die gestern erneut in dem seit fünf Wochen umkämpften Gebiet der Dörfer Hürtgen und Vossenack bis zu zehnmal angriffen, wurden durch Gegenangriffe wieder geworfen oder blieben im Trichtergelände liegen. Bei Saarlautern sowie zwischen Saaralben und den oberen Vogesen vereitelten unsere Divisionen alle Durchbruchsversuche, die der Feind den ganzen Tag über fortsetzte. In einzelnen Abschnitten wurden unsere Stellungen nach schweren Kämpfen geringfügig zurückgedrückt. Östlich Ingweiler und südlich Hagenau brachen Angriffe nordamerikanischer Regimenter nach fünfmaligem vergeblichem Ansatz blutig zusammen. Im mittleren und oberen Elsass behaupteten unsere Truppen das Kampffeld gegen den in der Rheinebene von Norden her angreifenden Feind. In Schlettstadt tobt ein erbitterter Häuserkampf mit dem in die Stadt eingedrungenen Gegner.
Der Großraum von London und Antwerpen liegt weiter unter dem Beschuss unserer Fernfeuerwaffen.
In Mittelitalien ist nördlich Forli die Schlacht von neuem entbrannt. Die nach stärkstem Vorbereitungsfeuer angreifenden feindlichen Divisionen konnten nur unter schweren Verlusten wenige Kilometer vorankommen. Grenadiere und Jäger fingen die feindlichen Angriffsspitzen durch Gegenangriffe ab. Im Übrigen adriatischen Küstenabschnitt fühlten die Briten erfolglos gegen unsere Stellungen vor.
In Südungarn hält der Feind seinen starken Druck westlich Fünfkirchen und im Gebiet des. Kaposflusses aufrecht. Unsere Grenadiere warfen in Mittelungarn die Bolschewisten aus dem Südwestteil des Mátragebirges zurück und beseitigten damit in mehrtägigen harten Waldkämpfen eine feindliche Einbruchsstelle. Die harten Kämpfe bei Miskolc dauern an. Auch zwischen den Flüssen Sajö und Hernad wird erbittert gekämpft. Trotz seines starken Kräfteeinsatzes konnte der Feind nur in einzelnen Abschnitten Boden gewinnen. An der gesamten übrigen Ostfront blieb die Kampftätigkeit gering.
Nordamerikanische Bomber warfen gestern Bomben in Oberschlesien, Südostdeutschland und im mittelrheinischen Gebiet. Anglo-amerikanische Jagdflieger unternahmen Tiefangriffe auf die Zivilbevölkerung in West- und Südwestdeutschland. Durch Angriffe britischer Verbände, die gegen Abend nach Westdeutschland einflogen, entstanden in einigen Städten, vor allem in Hagen, Gebäudeschäden. 40 feindliche Flugzeuge, darunter 31 viermotorige Bomber, wurden durch Luftverteidigungskräfte abgeschossen.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (December 3, 1944)
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Allied forces which entered Linnich were mopping up in the town yesterday. To the south, we have cleared Rurdorf, and fighting continued at Flossdorf and in Inden where the action was fierce.
Fighter-bombers went for road, river and railway targets over a wide area in the Rhineland. They destroyed or disabled a large quantity of enemy rolling stock and cut railway lines in many places. Fortified towns immediately behind the enemy lines in the Düren–Linnich areas, and troop concentrations near Düren, were attacked, and a railway bridge 20 miles east of Euskirchen was destroyed.
Our ground forces enlarged their control of the Saar River bank above and below Merzig and entered the town of Rehlingen. Other forces were in the outskirts of Saarlouis on the west side of the river. Farther south, moderate gains were made and mopping up is in progress in Sarre-Union.
Medium, light and fighter-bombers struck at enemy positions and other targets in the Saarbrücken region, destroyed a railway bridge near Sarreguemines and set on fire an oil and ammunition dump at Pirmasens.
Southeast of Sarre-Union, our forces made gains of approximately two miles and reached the vicinity of Mackweiler. Two enemy counterattacks were repulsed.
The enemy was forced from an area on the west bank of the Rhine River near Strasbourg. In his retreat, he blew up three bridges across the Rhine.
Fighter-bombers attacked railway yards at Rastatt and Offenburg.
On the Alsace Plain, we have reached Selestat where house-to-house fighting continues.
In the southern high Vosges, our forces pushed into the upper Thur River valley and occupied several villages. Units which crossed to the north bank of the Doller River near Mulhouse repulsed a strong counterattack.
During the day’s air operations, which included an attack by rocket-firing fighters on an enemy strongpoint in the Venlo area of Holland, four enemy aircraft were destroyed in the air and seven on the ground. According to reports so far received, we lost one light bomber and 13 fighter-bombers.
Yesterday afternoon, a force of escorted heavy bombers attacked a benzol plant in the outskirts of Dortmund. Last night, heavy bombers were over Germany in strength with Hagen as the main objective.
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/s/The Pittsburgh Press (December 3, 1944)
Nazis intensify Rhine defense; Yanks take four Roer towns
Germans concentrate against 9th Army; Patton in Saarlautern
By James F. McGlincy, United Press staff writer
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