NAZI SOLDIERS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 395, 31 March 1937, Page 5

NAZI SOLDIERS

Encouraging Joyful Willingness. Berlin, March 20. Nazi Germany, Ju the process of building up an army of h million men, goes' out of her way to please her young conscripts and to bring about that “joyful willingness l to bear arms” so much propagated by the Nazi regime.

Old-timers who have served in the old army and lived in the bleak and cheerless barracks of pre-war days often refer to the new barracks in Germany, equipped With all mo'defla conveniences, including radio sets, as “boarding schools for young girls.” The village of Hettingen, neia-r Stuttgart, has gone a step further to instil the proper military spirit into its five recruits who Were called te the colours this year to serve a term of two years wi,.h the fighting forces, by introducing the pre-war “conscript tax.” Each of Hettigeih's 600 inhabitants was called upon to pay the sum of 30 pfennig, or 12 cents, a month. The proceeds of the conscript tax we're Idisii.ibutisd among (the poun'g soldiers,