The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-16

leabie little minds have been sys- tematically warped. They are grow ing up in a mental plaster-cast, and they like 1t with its accompaniment of drums, trumpets and uniforms and flags. They are enthusiastic; the biggest hauls in the Winter Re- lief collections are always made by the Hitler Youth and the Bund Deutscher Maedel, the League of German Girls. have never seen 80 completely military German as the little seven. .year-old boy who knocked on my door one day and, when I had opened 1t, snapped to rigid attention, shot his arm high and shouted at me falsetto "Heil Hitlerl" after which he asked me in the slipped sentences of a military command would I donate twenty pfennigs to support the Fuehrer and the Fatherland in this, our life- and-death struggle"
 Youth Last To
 Suffer Starvation
 Of all the Germans, they have been most closely guarded in their camps in Eastern Germany against the effects of the Transition. The Fuehrer is still struggling to keep the other side of the war secret from them. With the exception of the soldiers, If 1t comes to starving, the Youth will be the last to suffer. They arc well fed and receive spe- cial rations of cakes and goodies not available to grown-ups even today. They receive healthy vacations at the expense of the state and their training and schooling is physically good.
 Tn Berlin, every evening at sunset, doz9ns of big, grey buses ride over the city picking up children and taking them to the Fuehrer's own chancellery in the Wilhelmstrasse, where they spend evenings and nights playing in the vast, luxurious chancellery cellars, or seeing films or plays for children, safe from bombs. The Great Conqueror, who Is inaccessible to high diplomats of foreign lands, then goes down into the cellars and spends half-an-hour talking snall-talk at them, when- ever he is in Berlin. These are the few children left in Berlin. Most of them from Berlin and other big German cities have long ago been transported to eastern Germany to be spared the experience of air- raids. They live in open-air schools and play on great playgrounds on the countryside.
 The strongest and handsomest are placed in Adolf Hitler Schools" Hitler founded these latter-day seminaries for the new German priesthood in January, 1888. Their curriculum is amazing. Besides studies in doctored German history and the three "R's", the boys are taught to mine coal, build bridges, and are made to undergo physical tests which put the training of Spartan youth in the shade. In a way, the Adolf Hitler schools are good idea. The boys become ac- quainted with every phase of life, a little hard labor, little book-keep- ing and salesmanship, Q lot of militarism and every form of sport. But the strain of the underlying ed- .ucation is warping. They are taught to believe in German superiority to all other peoples, they are rigor- ously indoctrinated with the racial idea, taught to hate Christianity, both as a religion and as norm of values, and to believe in the divinity of the Fuehrer. They come out of the Adolf Hitler schools, technically capable, strong, clean and alert, but with sense of values not much higher than that of an orang-utang. Naxl Children Love
 the Whole Show
 The little creatures in their brown shirts and short black trousers could be amusing if they were not so dan- gerous. They are dangerous; more so than a cholera epidemic. There is, so far as I know, no demoraliza- tion in their favored ranks. They love the whole show, and are just aching to get big enough to get into the fight themselves. Frankly, I am more afraid, more terrorized, at watching a squad of these little boys, their tender faces screwed in frowns to ape their idolized leaders, on the streets of Berlin, than I am at see- ing panzer brigade of grown-up fighters speeding across the city. The grown-ups we only have to fight: but we shall have to live under the chil- dren who are being trained for their role. They are being trained every day and every hour of the day in