“The Nazis are putting women back in the home but they do not intend to keep her company there,” writes Miriam Beard, historian, in the current issue of Today, out today. Nazis think it ill becomes a Teutonic male to spend many waking hours in his home, she declares. A Nazi’s son, as soon as he can goose-step, must be transferred to the drill-field.
The plight of German womanhood under Hitler is pitiful, Miriam Beard states, yet she has been conquered by her own consent.
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