CHILDREN IN UNIFORM

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 117, 11 February 1936, Page 3

CHILDREN IN UNIFORM

Mobilisation of Nazi Youth

Almost the entire Aryan population of Germany will be in uniform during the present year, states the Berlin correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian.” The whole of Germany’s youthmale and female —will wear compulsory State uniforms of one kind or another, while of the maturer generation only the married women probably will possess no uniforms at all. All boys and girls will wear the uniform of the appropriate branch of the State Hitler Youth from the age of 10 to 14, Herr Baldur von Schirach, the Hitler Youth leader, having declared that the whole of the youth of Germany must come into the State organisation this year. The remaining Roman Catholic and Protestant youth organisations will presumably be suppressed by indirect means, their young members being taken away from them and forced to enter the State body in what General Goering’s organ, the "National Zeltung,” describes as "the total mobilisation of youth.” In later adolescence Germany s young men will enter the Labour Corps find afterward the army. Young women of the same age will go intp the uniform of the Women’s Labour Service, which will probably be made compulsory toward the end of the year. For those who are not put into the uniforms of the Youth organisations or the civil and military services there are Hie Nazi partv organisations’ Brown Shirt uniforms, while virtually the whole of the working population, male and female, which is organised in the Labour front have their uniforms, too, though less formal. The men wear a dark blue reefer suit with peaked cap adorned with a golden badge, and the women arc expected to wear a dark skirt and white blouse on ceremonial occasions. The Women’s Labour Service, which is at present still voluntary and on a limited scale, aims at the Spartan ideal. Women, the Labour Service organ states, should be “steeled.” They must be accustomed to sleeping on sacks of straw and to wearing simple garments, and must give up bodily comforts and dainties, along with nil artificial aids to beauty.