FRAULEIN, YOU MAY SMOKE!

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19759, 28 March 1934, Page 12

FRAULEIN, YOU MAY SMOKE!

GOEBBELS GIVES PERMISSION. LONDON, February 14. Under the Nazi State, it was solemnly announced in Berlin to-day German women remain free to Enter the professions, Earn their own livings. Smoke if they wish, and Do their hair as they like. Reassurances to this effect were given by Dr. Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, to a meeting of women. Dr. Goebbels declared that suggestions that National Socialism was hostile to women, and aimed at getting them entirely out of public life, were entriely untrue. National Socialism, however, regarded the profession of wife and mother as the highest of all. There were the moral humbugs, declared Dr. Goebbels, who tried to tell women how to wear their hair, and announced that a women with the Eton crop was an inferior being. It would be the greatest misfortune, he said, if the women's movement in Germany made itself the interpreter of this false morality.

In April of last year State Commissioner Dreher at Ulm (Wurtemberg) asked restaurant proprietors to display a notice: “‘German women, do not smoke.” A similar request to restaurant keepers was made by Nazis in the Rhineland pilgrimage town of Kevelaer in July, 1933.