The Archive · 1940

Hitler and Women

They Are Ants in the Nazi Mound

Rumour has sometimes/ linked the name of the German actress, Leni Riefenstahl, with Hitler's. to meet.

In general, Hitler has the same use for women as he has for men. They are ants in the Nazi mound—only rather more so. "What is woman's task?" he asks, and answers it: "To have magnificent children." So the woman, like the man, must be taken in hand early in life. Physical training will beautify the body of the future German mothers and physical effort will draw off the superabundant energy of the young German bachelors.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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