GERMANY’S ARMY

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1939, Page 6

GERMANY’S ARMY

NATION TRAINED

EVERY MAN A SOLDIER,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON; February 13

The entire able-bodied population of Germany capable of bearing arms is now under the supreme personal direction of Herr Hitler.

This is the effect of a recent decree issued, by the Fuehrer which gives Germany the most extensive and most effective military organisation in the world, says the Beylin correspondent- of the Manchester Guardian. The .decree makes able-bodied-Ger-mans active soldiers from the age of 16 until they are too old to march, the correspondent continues;

It goes much further than 'fibinfill conscription, because the reserves will be pj/rmarmetly under training, whereas French military service terminates after' a period under the colours. French reservists are not recalled unless in exceptional circumand then only in small numbers. Germany now organises pre-army and post-armv training under the Nazi Storm Troopers, Boys start in the Hitler Youth organisations, then serve in the Labour Corps, the Army and the Storm Troops. The new system was devised by General von Brauchitscli, Commissar-in-Ohief of the Reichwelir. It transforms the Nazi, Storm Troopers into a permanent reserve army for national duty, marking a further stage in the concentration of the military forces under the personal leadership of Herr Hitler.