GERMAN GIRLS HUNT HUSBANDS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 185, 22 May 1939, Page 1

GERMAN GIRLS HUNT HUSBANDS

MARRIED WOMEN EXEMPT FOR CONSCRIPT LABOUR Gretel and List and lots of other (Jennan girls are taking part in the biggest man-lmut the Reich lias ever known. Fbr the girls want husbands, and want them quickly. For them, this year is leap-year. In Munich alone, it is estimated, every eligibly bachelor has received at least three marriage proposals. The reason for this marriage rush is the conscription of female labour in Germany to make up the serious labour shortage. Only married women are exempt firm the various jobs wlijfli German girls are now forced to take at certain ’ages. Girls are taken from their families te> work on farms; others are warned that if they refuse jobs as maidservants they will be sent to labour camps. Herr Hitler’s methods are, in fact, driving thousands of girls into loveless marriages. In Vienna the number of marriages since the • anscliluss lias almost trebled, and the first “Hitler babies” are now arriving.” Some of those newly wed Hitier couples have been bitterly disappointed-, because husbands lost their jobs in party organisations in -the recent purge of potty Nazi officialdom. A large’ number of enthusiastic young Nazi husbands, who enjoyed parading in uniforms and collecting a nice salary for little work,, resent being seil t to wovk in arms factories and other industries, where they receive only small wages.