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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. At the first consideration and that the Nazi party au.pic ••• gradUally to convince the Ger- tIme this had a logical sound. decision to go or stay was his man people that religion Is not He made little effort in the alone. This lack of opposition ever heard of dowries except in' Great emphasis would be put on a sanctuary from the cares ot following week, however, to seemed to have more effect than story books. It was useless to hIs physical fitness and his ea- life. The leaders retain famIliar adapt himself to American life. pleading or tears would have ask hIm why he wanted to pacity for leadership. He would words and names connectedwith In Chicago I had obtained a had. My husband canceled his break up our home so soon after have to go on long marches and the Christian faith. but carry on number of letters introducing booking. the lease was sIgnedand the fur- take camping trips so Germany a campaign to substitute' the him to executives In New York, e • e niture purchased, or to demand could estimate his value at this state for the church. Propagan- but he demanded a short period why he had bought and insured tender age. da MinIster Goebbels has as- in which to orient himself to We stayed on in the hotel. We an automobile. If he proved he was worth serted that the Nazi party is a new surroundings. seemed to have reached an Im- HIs only reply was: to I do training for leadership he would political church whIch will last Then, after we had seen most passe. Karl was doing nothing this because I love you so much be put In one of the special Hit- for a thousand years. As poltt- of the famous sights of the city, toward getting work. We had, I must be true to myself." I can ler schools. These instItutions ical priests the party leaders he grudgingly went out to hunt temporarily, ample funds, but translate thIs into other words: educate boys from 10 to 18 years teach that only through the a job. At the end of the first it was time we were looking to "If I am to love my wife she old and are separate from the eliminatIon of ••JUdaism, com- day he returned to our hotel the future. The sltuation was must be a refiection of myself regular s ch 0 0 I system. Of munIsm, and democracy" can room in a bitter mood. unpleasant, and KaI'l made it and my ownNational Socialism." course, pure Aryan cItizenship civilizatIon be saved. It is the ••You have disappoInted me," worse by his frequent reerlml- I could not fulflll the require- and good character would be doctrin of hate. he said In his precise English. nations and his talk of Gp.rman ments. needed to qualify. The more I think of myself ••Why did I give up my position superiorIty. • e e At 18 Karl Jr. could apply for as a housewife In Germany the in Haiti? To come here and Wlren my mother telegraphed membership in the Nazi party, more fantastIc the possibIlity walk the dirty streets of New us an invitation to come and A GennaD teacher poinla out to .tudellla the effect of the V.,.aUle. treaty Karl sailed on Nov. 3. From which takes charge of the most seems. I shrink at ever comIng York, begging for work? These' spend a vacation in the famil~' ODtheir coUDtry. (Acme pIIolcNl.) the ship he sent a message: promiEing youths and traIns again In contact with the mass letters are a waste of time. It cottage in MinnesotaI felt much tt Leb wahl. Beheut dich Gott. them for the government serv- emotion, the egotIsm, the hate, is embarrassing to ask for a job relieved. We acceptedand start- standing news event. To Karl lind In complete calm, told me (Live well. God bless you.i " ice. Accepted,he would have to and the force of the ReIch. when there is no definite open- ed west almost Immediately. On it was the most Important event what he Intended to do. He That was all. Something told take oath: II The Fuehrer Is al- Even less could I bear to have ing. You have made me start the way Karl talked about his in present-day history. He read would stay, he said, until the me that his transformation Into ways right." He would have to my children grow up. with the again at the bottom." rights to a dowry. Then when everything about it In the pa- lease on the apartment ran out. a true Nazi was quite complete. pledge himself to absolute obedi· Nazis. I tried to make Karl under- we stopped at the family home pers. He listened to the radio re- By' that time he would know His brIef emergence from the ence, to avoidance of ttme-waat- What does It matter If It be stand that he could not expect a on the Chicago north shore (no ports. Againthese angered him. definltly whether he would stay German shell had been too swift Ing chatter and self·gratIfying true that under Hitler there Is place at the first asking, but he one was at home at the time) he From the time Hitler made in America or return to Ger- and too startling. The vivid criticism. He would have to go no starvation and little unem- remained dissatisfied and queru- complained about an investment his speech excoriating Prest- many. I told him that would workaday American democracy over wholly to the cause, govern ployment? Must all the Intel- lous. After presenting a few he had made in America. dent Benes of Czecho-Slovakfa, be all right. I had the feeling had frightened hIm with its en- hIs appearance and behavior to lect, all the spirit of a great more of the letters he refused "You are all working against through the ChamberlaIn·Hitler that he would persist In this de- ergy and its free thinking. the dictates of the government, people be subordInated to the fiatly to continue on the rounds. me," he shouted.•• Youare steal- intervIews, and the signing ot cIsion,although he had changed As the distance between us and suppress his own thoughts. physIcal needs and material to I am too proud ror this," he ing my hard-earned money. I the Munich pact he accurately so many times before after widened the possibIlity 01 re- But if the hypothetical Karl welfare of Germany! Must Hit· said. ••I don't deserve such wfll not stand It. Tomorrow I predicted the moves. charting a course of action. union grew less. AmerIcanfree- preferred to take up a protes- ler and hIs like hold on forever, treatment." shall leave for Germany." "There is no danger of war," Mypatience and my sympathy dom meant so much to me that sional career, or even to get a keeping German minds and Thereafter he devoted much The strain of the constant he said. ••Germany's people are for Karl were, I think, Increased I could no longer consider ever job in business, he would still souls In leash by propaganda if of his time to reports of Ger- clashes was growing too heavy not excited. Mostof them know by that Interview. I understood being a "true Nazi frau" under have to report at 18 to the they can, by prisons and concen- many published in the New for me to bear. I collapsed and little of what is goIng on. You that he was strongly drawn to the Hitler banner. I would never ArbeitsdienBt (labor service) and tration camps if they must! I York papers, and also to the went to bed. Karl called my Americans are excited about me and to my home and friends, bother about being a ••pure undergo six months of shovel thInk they will hold on, and for comments of radio announcers. mother in Minnesota and told war In Europe, just as you would but that the pull of German tra- Aryan." I was free! work and then two years of mil- a long, long time. Once, after hearing a critical her good-by. He explained in be by a baseball game. You dition was too strong. His fam- Why hadn't I seen that a Ger- Itary training. The Arbeits- Would I like to be part of the broadcast on Hitler's plans, he soft, unruffled tones that I was believe what you see In print ily at home meant a great deal man marriage would mean for dien8t members carry shiny great German world offensive? demanded: unable to get to the phone. and what you hear on the radio." to him. The Nazi government, an American woman the cross- shovels Instead of guns. No. And yet I believe that Hit- to Is there no fairness, no de- Something mother said must He was much pleased with the regimented life in his home- ing of almost insurmountable All through thIs period a se- ler will proceed as my husband cency in this country? Must have soothed him. Perhaps he Chamberlain's first air trip to land, had an attractive security barriers if she was to retain any lective process would be going said he would; that he will go you always allow the tongues thought that she would side with Berchtesgaden, Hitler's moun- for hIm. On the other side, his individuality? To be fair, a on. Each year a thousand young on absorbing one after the other of Jews to speak for you? Must him in the dowry matter. At tain retreat. The British prime extreme sensItiveness weighed German husband under the cir- men are chosen to becomemem- of the territorIes cut away from you always lie about the aims any rate he changed his mInd minister, he said, was a real on hIm, unfitted him for AmerI- cumstances has a tough assIgn· bers of the Order of Leaders. Germany after the war. If you o.t the Fuehrer and Germany?" about leaving immediately. He diplomat, and added that this can life. ment, and I wondered if Karl, They are the thousand who best have not been In Germany you

Next he Instructed me metteu- came upstairs to me. proved Germany was being rec- Sunday we were happy, united. far out on the Atlantic, ahared answer the questions: II What cannot understand the power of lously on the Hitler plans. He "I cannot leave you In this ognized as ••the first power on Monday came, and Karl went my feeling of release. I think have you done for the party? propaganda - a power that said the democracies of Europe condition," he said. ••There is the continent." almost gayly to work. I pre- he dId. I hope he did. Are you sound physIcally, mor- makes devotion to the nation would never dare interfere. He no tellIng what you might do. Shortly before the agreement pared something special for din· He had done his best, I am ally, and mentally? Is your transcend love and family and outlined a course by which he Your mother was insistent that was reached at MunIch, Karl nero But when he came In late sure. But I was not easy to family tree In order?" all the thIngs we hold most dear. said Hitler would eventually we come to Minnesota." Informed me he had obtained in the afternoon he mentioned make over. Americans may Through this system Germany When the victories come Karl make France pay for the numn- He put his suitcases back in the forms for first citizenship that the newspapers still printed seemcasual, fun·lovIng,and friv· is preparing the succession to ReInke wIll rejoice. He has iation heaped on his country at the closets from which he had papers. ••There is a clause." he unfavorable stories about Ger· olous; underneath they are as Hitler and the perpetuation of made his choiceand I have made the end of the World war. Much dragged them. Another crisis said, ••that I must swear to take many. firm as lamp posts when their National Socialism t h r 0 ugh mIne. I choose the land where that he foretold has been accom- was ended, and we went on to up arms in defense of the United ••Never mind," I saId gayly. freedom, their original modes of many generations. mothers will never hear their plished. Karl always seemed the lake country. States. Be assured I shall "There are many vIewsIn Amer- thought are challenged. I was Our little girl would be regi- children cry ••Hell Hitler! tt nor to be able, to guess what was Our happIest weeks In Amer- never sIgn such an oath." That tea, As Americans we have no as proud of my country as Karl mented at 10 into the Jungmae- any other pledge to dictatorship. goIng on In Europe. But he Ica were spent there. In the was anything but encouraging. dislike for the German people. was of his. But I had not been delB and at 14 Into the Bund I choose the United States of never achIeved any understand- pine woods Karl was too busy We moved into the new apart- We just hate to hear the word traIned, as he had, to show that Deutscher Maedel, or League of AmerIca! ing of Ameiica. working and playing to pay ment on Oct. 1, the day the first 'dictator.' " pride. German Girls. These organlza- (THE END.)

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