American Girl's Romance Wrecked by Hitlerism
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Pa._ Foar CJaica~o Sanda" Tri1Jane German troops marched Into the tiona would train her, with mil- Sudetenland. We hung the pIc- American Girl's Romance lions of other little girls, for the tures, stamped the rugs Into two professiona-and two only place, and bought everything we -that the German &,overnment needed to complete our domestic Wrecked by Hitlerism recognizes for women-mother- establishment. But Karl never hood and nursIn&,. was happy in It. Karl put down his knife and The reasons why I can never When she married, probably His evenings at home he spent fork. ••There is something I go back across the sea and be- very young,she and her huaband with his ear at the radio, whence must tell you," he said quietly. come a German wife are easily would be given, if they needed came the stirring story of the ••I shall go to Germany at once. analyzed. First of all, I think It, a thousand-mark loan to fur· NazI victory. OccasIonally we In a year or two I wtll send for of children. I can remember nIsh and equip their household. had long hours of phonograph you, but if you come you must the cold Sunday mornings in ThIs loan would have to be re- music, and even more rarely change a great deal. You must Hamburg when troops of boys paid In ten years, but credits went to the movies. Music al- be ready to become a true Ger· In the dark blue Hltler .Youth against it would be given for ways eased the emotional strain man wife, receptive to National uniforms marched by singing the each child born to the coupl~ under whIch we labored. But SocIalistIdeals." Then he added lusty songs taught them by the Germany fa overcrowded now, as soon as the fundamentals of a strange and to me almost a Nazis. Their thick shoes elat- but the Nazis want more chil- politics or religion or education comic request. ••You must In- tered on the cobblestones, and dren, always more, that their were discussed we were antago- vestigate your family tree for the little fellows had to run de- dreams of mIlitary conquest can nIsts again. generations to see that you are terminedly to keep up with the be carried on for decades. Alwayswe dIvided,as German pure Aryan:' big ones. Meanwhile what sort of a and American views clashed. I Continuing, he said he could Would I ever be willing to family life would Karl and I and was sure we still loved each no longer overlook the dowry. turn a &-year-oldson of mine our children lead? We would G.nnaD girt. in a Neu1 youth orvcmiaatioD camp gettJq their early traiDing from the atate. Dot the bome. other, yet I wondered how this II The withholding of It was a over to the Hitler Youth, to let address each other and our could be so. We were so differ- trick," he asserted. ••May I him be traIned through adoles- friends and the butcher. the much attention to the German ent. My belief that Karl was assure you that the marriage cence and into manhood by the grocer, and the milkman with • In the previous iMtalment8 Mr8. Reinke told of her early political situation. He chopped unhappy because he was home- would not have taken place if government? Mentally, moral- "Heil Hitler!" a dozen times a experiences in Germany. 8he had gone there on a belated firewood,mended ~e boat, tend- sIck was worn threadbare. Yet your position on this matter had ly, and physIcallyhe would have day. We would sign letters, honeymoon with the young hU8band she married in America. ed the garden, and went on long I made all the allowancesI could been clearly explained either by to be the property of the Nazis. begIn and end telephone conver- Nazi politic8 intruded into her dome8tic life, but she loved Karl walks with me. The environ- for the cutting remarks he made. you or your father." Millfons of German mothers sations, and greet the postman Reinke and was still hopeful 8he could become the true German ment suited him. Gradually the situ a tf 0 n So this was what Karl, the make the surrender becausethey with the same phrase. We frau he demanded. In a little Bavarian village Mrs. Reinke The relatives and friends who reached a point where I could do fine, sensitIve gentleman of the have been persuaded by propa- would hear It when each radio and her husband 8aw German troops marching through to the visited us found hIm charming. program began and ended. The conquest of Austria. As the story is taken up she is in Ham- nothing about It. It was Impos- Haitian days, had become. Th18 ganda that only through such burg, read" to leave for the United 8tates. Her German They were all impressed with sible to speak clearly with my Karl at least was real. Perhaps an educatIonal system can the home In Germany Is no refuge husband is to follow a month later. his well chosen remarks on husband. Unless I would second that other man I had fallen In fatherland survive and become from propaganda. Europe's problems. He present- hls opinions he took the position love wIth was an ideal projected great. How would religion dect us? ed the German case In a 11ght that I was insulting him or in- by my own imagination. At 10 the Karl Jr. of the future Hitler always says that he has By MARGARET PORTER REINKE that made a splendidImpressIon, sulting Hitler and Germany. I It was useless to tell this man would be taken into the active given Germany a renascence (Copyriaht: 1838: Th. CbkaP TribuDe.) and I was proud of him. I had began to see that I was only that neither I nor my father had servIce of the Hitler Youth. wIth the-aId of God. When he ARLYIN APRIL I sailed Perhaps this was because he reason, I felt, to hope that he hanging on to the last shreds of marched into Vienna he went to on the S. S. Manhattan. did not like my country. Cer- would forget his longing for the loyalty to the marriage vows I the radio and spoke fervently of God's help to the ReIch and the EMany of the passengers tainly it was not long until he homeland and his devotion to had taken in Miami_ were Jewish refugees, driven began to lament he had come Nazi Ideas. One Saturday evening In late anschluss. In" Mein Kampf" from the Reich by the cruelty over. He talked of having been In September we returned to October we sat down as reason- he has written that In persecut· ing the Jews he Is II doIng the and exactions of the Nazi gov- tricked. Why, he said, had my ChIcago. We had talked things able beings and discussed what Lord's work." ernment. family refused to pay a dowry? over with my father and mother we should do. Karl was frank. My month of separation from Why did they consent to let him and Karl was on the surface He was debating whether he He will not, however, permit Karl passed swiftly and hap- beg strangers for work? content that we should work should return to Germany. This his countrymen to worship as pily. Here in the United States After several weeks of brood- thIngs out ourselves and not time I was definite In my an- they see fit. That in his view I felt a new and deep security ing he announced early in July look to anyone for support. He swer. This I have never regret- would be to encourage mere hys- that was missing all the while that he had booked passage for accepted with outward gratitude ted. That evening was the be- teria and the outcropping of in- I was in Germany. And I was Germany, and that he would go a position that was offered him, ginning of a new freedom for ternational propaganda. The sure that if Karl remained in alone. and we rented and furnished a me. I returned to my status as brotherhood of man, good will, America we would be very " It will be disgrace enough to small apartment. an Individual and made it plain tolerance, and understanding happy together. Here, I told face my family without you,con- Before long he was complain- to Karl that whatever happened are regarded by the Nazis as myself, he would be qUickly fess my failure and tell them that Ing that any simple clerk could I would guard my self-respect. moral weaknesses. They agree weaned away from Nazi Ideas. your people have not carried do hIs work. Once' more the My decisionwas that he must with Nietzsche that ChristianIty He arrived on May 20, and I out their agreements," he said. American urban scene was find· do as he pleased. but that I is II fit only for shopkeepers, met him on the dock in New I could not remember any Ing him antagonistic. His gloom would no longer consent to sup- Christians, cows, women, Eng- York. Joyful as I was, I could agreement that was not kept. increased as the Czecho-Slo- pression of my ownviewson any lishmen, and other democrats." not help seeing that he was de- But I had become weary, too vakian crisIs developed. Even subject, nor to admit inferiority. pressed, but he explained that weary to fight. I told Karl then to Americans that was an out- Then Karl, without rancor ••• he had had a rough passage and that hIs happiness should be the National SocIalism is striving Field Marabal GoerlAg 'riIlla a group 01 GennaD boll being railed UDder was not feeling well.