“Perfect” Nazi Woman Has a Flair For Leadership

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19106, 29 August 1936, Page 10

“Perfect” Nazi Woman Has a Flair For Leadership

£)ESCRIBED by Herr Hitler as the “perfect Nazi woman,” Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink is now in London as a delegate to the Third International Conference on Social Work. Vivacious, young, but methodical in manner, she has very evidently been born with a flair for leadership, and it is quite easy, after hearing her speak, to imagine why she is regarded in her own land as the ideal type of modern Germanic womanh.ood. Does Not Use Make-Up Frau Scholtz-Klink is fair, and her face is devoid of powder or “makeup.:” When she addressed the conference this week she was dressed in putty-coloured coat and skirt, with a school-girlish collar and tie. Her almost straight hair was braided casually round the back of her head; she spoke calmly and unemotionally, in a clear, almost hard voice, gazing at the audience with self-possessed grey eyes, and letting her hands hang at her sides, half-hidden by the cuffs of her coat. The subject of her address was the “Organisation of Leisure in Germany.” Little Time for Leisure A woman of little leisure herself — she runs about six separate State departments, devoted to the interests ol women and children —she described in 15 minutes ,of rapid speech the method by which Germany had “solved tho problem of the hard-working married woman with many children.” “The wife and mother,” she said, “is sent for a. holiday, either to the spent travelling or in a holiday centre, where she can recuperate. Meanwhile, her burden is taken over by voluntary workers, usually girl students, who perform her household tasks, sometimes sacrificing part of their .own holiday for that purpose.”