NO RATION TICKETS FOR HITLER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 August 1942, Page 6

NO RATION TICKETS FOR HITLER

Leather and wool are scarce in Germany, but not for Adolf Hitler, reports Frederick C. Oechsner, United Press correspondent in Berlin on his return to U.S.A. The Nazi dictator has 100 suits and uniforms of the best material, 60 pairs of boots and shoes, and 35 hats and caps. He used to wear swagger caps, but came to consider them too jaunty and sought a more serious model. For Herr Hitler, simplicity in dress is emphasised. He calls “tails” for men a laughable get-up; he wears them only when it is impossible to avoid putting them on, as at a reception for foreign diplomats. A really fashionably dressed man is unbearable to him. His aversion to Britain's Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was based on this antipathy. However, he likes elegant military uniforms on his generals. His atitude toward women’s dress is quite different. He likes to see well-dressed women -.round him, and even has reports and lectures delivered to him on the creation of a German mode for women. It is said that he designed costumes for the well-known German dancers, the Hoepfner sisters, that they wore when they made a special appearance on the terrace of the chancellery. He does not like to see women smoke, and they do not do so in his presence. This is probably due less to the fact that it is women who are smoking than to his dislike for tobacco. As a rule men also do not smoke in his presence, although now in wartime he makes frequent exceptions in the case of soldiers.