TRAINING OF WIVES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 403, 9 April 1937, Page 6

TRAINING OF WIVES.

SPECIAL NAZI SCHOOLS Girls To Marry Guards. Marriage schools aie to be established throughout Germany to provide good wives for Hitler's blackuniformed guards, recruited from the tallest and strongest men in the Nazi party. The first school has been opened tn Jonsdorf, on the Czechoslovakian frontier. It is named the “Karin Goering Home," in memory of General Goering’s first wife, and is under the control of the Nazi National .Motherhood Service. Fraulein von Theenen, one of the principals' of the home, said to an interviewer: “We have 24 girls, from 18 to 25 years of age. Fourteen are already engaged to guardsmen. The others hope to be soon. "They stay with-us a month, then another batch comes. They learn everything that will help to make them good wives and mothers. They are also taught how to look after a baby. “We have no servants. Pupils make their oy.'n beds, scrub the floors, .keep, everything clean, and tidy. They get up'at.seven and have half an hour’s gymnastics. “Then they do housework. They have the afternoon for sewing, eoofc ing and other lessons. The girls get ised to handling, children in our kindergarten, attended by children from the neighbourhood.”