Leadership Recalled Pagan Customs Praised Berlín, Dec. 25.
"We have a special reason this Christmas to be profoundly grateful to the Lord God for'so visibly: blessing the way that the Fuehrer took, declared Herr Rudolf Hess, as Herr Hitlers deputy, in broadcasting a message last night to, Germans throughout the world.
A Eulogy of Germany's achievements in the past year and an announcement of a new decoration for mothers, were the main features of ihe. address. ' Having enumerated the achievements, Herr Hess castigated doubters and critics in Germany and declared, that even they cannot impede Germany's progress in the future.
As a Christmas present from Herr Hitler to fruitful mothers, Herr Hess announced: that mothers of four or five children. will receive a bronze cross of the German Mother. The mothers of six or seven children, he added, will earn a silver cross and -a mother of eight children a gold cross,
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