MARRIAGE RUSH

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 4

MARRIAGE RUSH

HUNT FOR HUSBANDS “LEAP YEAR” IN GERMANY German girls are taking part in the biggest man-hunt the Reich has ever known. For the girls want husbands, and want them quickly. For them, this year is leap year. In Munich alone, it is estimated, every eligible bachelor has received at leasi three marriage proposals. Tiie i'dojja for this n -riage rush is the consenp’. - c of f-.mtle labour in Germany to make up the serious labour shortage. Only married women are exempt from the various jobs ! which German girls are now forced : t 0 take at certain ages. Girls are taken from their families to work on farms; others are warned that if they refuse jobs as maidservants they will be sent to labour camps. Hitler's methods are, in fact, driving thousands of girls into loveless marriages. In \ienna the number of marriages since the Anschluss has almost trebJi d, and the first ’’Hitler babies” are inw arriving (says a correspondent of tiie Daily Ll aid; Some of these n ,-v iy wed Hitler couples .have been t’.ur'y disappointed, because husbands lost their jobs in party crga i ‘ in the recent purge of petty Nazi officialdom. A large • ornber r f enthusiastic young Nazi 1 usbauds, who enjoyed p:ratting in uniforms aim collecting a nut 1 salary far little voik, resent being sen: to work m arms factories and oilier indusll ies. \\( ?re they receive only small wages.