HER "EQUALS"
GERMAN HERRENVOLK IDEA
lIIG H-SOUNDIN'G TITLES
"The Herrenvolk idea, launched by the labour front chief. Dr. Robert Ley, to supplement the party's thesis that the Reich is the European leader nation, has struck a responsive chord in the souls of the inferiorityeomplexcd Germans. A maid in the family of an American diplomat friend of the writer actually tokl her employer a few days after the Herrenvolk theme came out that she was giving up her job because she felt she could 110 longer work for her inferiors. She did quit her job and probably transferred to a German family for less pay, or to a factory. Little she cared so long as she worked for 01* with her 'equals.' "Hitler has put every German into a uniform, even if only that of a street sweeper, and rained upon the wearers decorations, medals and high-sounding titles and ranks. A corporal in the SS, for instance 1 , is a 'Rottenfeuhrer,' a group leader.
"That German rank may sound like a joke to Anglo-Saxon ears, but to the Germans the inclusion of the word- fuehrer in the title is something very fine, for it makes him somebody with his family and friends."—G. Axelsson (Stockholm) in the New York Times.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 83, 27 July 1942, Page 5
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208HER "EQUALS" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 83, 27 July 1942, Page 5
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