Intensive training is being given to thousands of German girls of 18 and 19 called up in the Reich since the beginning of the war for labour service. Only wage-earners and those undergoing professional training are exempted. They are grouped in camps of 50 and work eight to nine hours a day in the fields and farms, taking the place of older men who are manning frontier defences. Official assurances have had to be given that they will not be over-strained: nevertheless, in addition to their full working day, they are given physical training before lunch for an hour. At night political instruction is given. News bulletins are listened to morning and night, and regular lectures on political events are given by the leader of the camp "with explanations.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 9
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129Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 9
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