GERMANY: Sledgehammer Sex

Though women in The Fatherland are traditionally meek, a few bold spirits publish The German Woman Fighter, regularly print letters in which spinsters, widows, wives and mothers have their say. Last week a letter signed, "A Mother Who Was One of the First Adherents of the Nazi Reich," set parents agog by stating publicly how young girls fare in the camps and classrooms of the Nazi League of German Maidens.

"When, for instance, in a camp a 28-year-old male teacher constantly addresses 14 and 15-year-old girls as 'You growing mothers,' then the...

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