JAVELINS BEFORE LIPSTICKS
Javelins and jumping poles are more important for the girls of modern Germany than lipsticks, declared Herr Jeckeln, group leader of the Black Guards, at a meeting of the Nazi Party. “The girl who wants to marry a Black Guard must be perfect in every way. She must have earned a sport badge,” he said. (A sport badge is earned in some branch of athletics). Speaking of the “craze for blonde hair,” Herr Jeckeln cried, “Blonde hair and blue eyes are no sort of proof that you belong to the Nordic race; Germany has no use for women who can dance prettily at teadances. What we want are women who have proved their health by achievements in sport.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 247, 18 October 1937, Page 2
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