National Affairs: Promised Land

Poppa Loeffler pined for the old country. For years his neighbors had heard him talk about going back. There were no jobs for his two strapping boys in Watertown, Wis., and Herr Hitler's own agent in Milwaukee had told him about the glorious opportunities in the new Nazi Fatherland. One fine day last spring, with 150 other Wisconsin families, the Loefflers picked up and went. The Fatherland paid all the passage money, every pfennig.

In the steel mill at Brandenburg, Poppa Loeffler made good money—52 Reichsmarks a week....

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