“With Hitler it is not even a secret that he fears and hates women,” writes Katharine Anthony in the April American Spectator. She goes on:
“He must therefore countermand every principle and ideal that they have striven for in Germany for the past thirty years. No co-education, no birth-control, no equality of the sexes is tolerated in the Nazi state. The women’s organizations which once pursued these aims and similar ones have silently dispersed and vanished. Hitler will force the women of Germany, including the two million surplus in the population, into the Procrustean bed of woman’s historic mission.”
The author states that when Paul Goebbels expounds the woman’s mission before a gathering of women, he is not simply explaining the government and its rulings, but in the manner of a pope is “enunciating infallible doctrine.”
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