GERMAN POPULATION
A PEOPLE'S REGISTER MANY SEARCHING QUESTIONS BERLIN, Aug. 9. (Received Aug. 10, at 1 a.m.) A decree issued by the Minister for the Interior provides for "a people's register " of the entire civil population between the ages of seven and seventy. Millions of cards are being distributed demanding that citizens reply to a host of searching questions with regard to occupations, talents, hobbies, physical condition, and family affairs. The register is intended to supplement police information dealing with national service in war time, especially enabling regimentation of women. An official declared: "We are squeezing the last drop of efficiency from the nation, which has already attained an impressive degree of competence. In the event of emergency every man, woman and child would be allotted the most suitable post.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 11
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