The anniversary celebrated by the S.S. is the Winter Solstice which comes about the time of Christmas and which Hitler has unsuccessfully tried to substitute for that festival throughout Germany.
Up on á wild peak in the Harz Mountains "Gentle Heinrich" Himmler with his retind spectacles, round face, and pursy expression, lights a pyre symbolic of "Purity and Life." He has thought up a completely new set of "ancient rituals" for celebration of the S.S, marriages, for settlement of S9. disputes and for guiding the lives of his men in a false atmos., phere of pseudo chivalry typified by the Druidic Amphitheatres with maypoles, which he has had put up all over Germany.
On October 28, 1939 Himmler issued one of the most remarkable decrees of modern history in an order to the Blite Guatd of S.S, and the Police urging that German women and girls of good blood should become mothers of the children of soldiers going off to war "even outside the mattiage bond." The illegitimate children are in fact cared for free in magnificent hospitals.
These methods of Himmler are profoundly interesting, for he understands onè side of human nature, especially in the human material which he has helped to mould and he has created a weapon in the S, without which Hitler would find it impossible to suppress the opposition of the better elements in Germany, Flags Must Be Flown All Powerful The Cracow correspondent of the "Berliner Morgenpost" declares that Cracow (famous Polish city of coronation) has a typical German character "in particular when the Swastika flags are floating in the wind. Doubtless the man is right, and his report is no less correct when he states that after some serious "admonitions" most Polish house owners are now hoisting the German flag.
Polish High Schools are closed; Poles are only permitted to go to technical schools and so-called "Supplementary Educational Courses," one learns from the "Warschauer Zeitung", Nazi daily in Warsaw, and according to the same paper, teaching of Polish history and geography "is stopped for the time being." Five German schools have been opened for Polish children in Posen, it is learned from the "Deutsche Rundschau," but even those few schools ate only intended for children from 7-13.
These are a few examples of what the Nazis call "the world's cultural domination by the German spirit"!
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