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WEDDING “BARGAINS”
Hitler Scheme Popular
German registry offices presented on July 13 the appearance of shops besieged by bargain hunters on the opening day of the spring sales. And, in fact there were bargains going in plenty — no fewer than 300,000 of them. For July 15 was the last day of handing in applications for the Hitler marriage dowry.
This scheme — by giving loans of 300 to 1000 marks to German couples about to marry — aims at bringing the German woman back into what the Hitler Government considers her right place, the home, and back to her right job — the bearing of children, writes the ‘Daily Express’ Berlin correspondent. Long queues of excited young men and women were waiting from eight o’clock in the morning in the streets outside the registry offices, and the augment
