GERMANY: Prouder Beauties

In Nazi ideology the paternal State watches over the acts, minds, morals and even the manners of its children. So last week self-confident young Baldur von Schirach—who although only 30 is generally rated high in the Nazi Party as head of the Hitler Youth organization—looked on Germany's marriageable daughters and decided something should be done to make them more attractive. For the blue-skirted, white-bloused young Mädchen who have stomped past him at innumerable parades, he decreed beauty culture.

Henceforth, all German girls between 18 and 21 must be members of a league...

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