Evening star., 1941-07-07

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military basis. Besides service in
the army. all must give up six
months in the work camps, "Arbeits-
deinst." where. at the age of 20,
boys work in the fields. in agricul-
ture on drainage projects, reclama-
ton of waste land. etc, while the
girls live in camps and go forth dur
ing the daytime to do domestic and
farm chores on neighboring farms.
None Can Escape.
It is all compulsory and no one
can escape. There is no pay. All
for Germany. Here in the youth of
the country is the strength, the
animation and the heart of Hitlers
Germany. and by this test Hitler's
Germany will make or break.
One day I was coming down the
great street, now labeled the Axis,
which reaches through the Tiergar-
ten straight as an engineers line
to the western sun, when past us
marched a company of lads in the
uniform of Hitler's Jungvolk. I must
admit that they did march very we'll
and carried themselves with proud.
erect bearing worthy of the best
Frederick tradition. but the man
with me. an ambassador. could not
conceal his overflowing enthusiasm.
Look. he exclaimed. They are
fine, not?' The spirit of the new
Germany was marching by" spirit
OF sacrifice and totalitarian disci-
pline in which the individual lives
and has his being only in the con-
ceptlon of the state and its glory. I
thought of the young fellow % years
old I had met near the German
border of the Polish Corridor at a
/ shooting party several years before
and what he had told me-that all
his generation was willing to give up
everything, career, possessions, mar
riage, family, everything which
human beings have cherished and
coveted and for which they have
Striven since the earliest story of the
race. He gave utterance to the same
dedication as these marching boys,
not one OF them over u years.
'Marsch, marsch. marsch" for the
fatherland and Fuehrer.
Learned From World War.
Much has been learned by the
Germans from the lessons of the
war a generation ago. Then the
fighting had been going on for a
year and half before 1t was sud-
denly realized that German i'm
ported tWo-thirds of its foocstuffs.
The rationing system was iraugu-
rated then after shortages COM
menced to be felt acutely, not at
the outset. as in this war.
Now not only are supplies hus-
banded by carefully calculated
ration but there is in addition great
accumulation of essential raw ma
terlals and foodstuffs. One could
see great storehouses at the out
skirts of Berlin. and it is no secret
that Germany has set a margin OF
sustenance sufficient for at least
year. There are also on hand large
quantities of essential raw mate
rialS.
When in Belgium I made An at
tempt to effect a statistical inves-
tigation of German oil supplies. I
had the aid of great industrial
organization, with branches all
through Europe and in Germany,
but the subject was very difficult
of analysis by figures because of the
two determinative questions which
still remain unknown. How much
oil had the Germans stored in prep
aration for the war, and how much
was manufactured by synthetic
means? These unknown factors
have never been revealed, so you
can prove nothing by statistics.
But judged by my experience OF
three months residence in Berlin,
living. while not an opulent.
sybaritic experience these days, with