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   From: ronD@bellsouth.net   
      
   "Topaz"  wrote in message   
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   > Goebbels speech on March 18, 1933:   
   > "German women, German men !   
   > It is a happy accident that my first speech since taking charge of the   
   > Ministry for Propaganda and People's Enlightenment is to German women.   
   > Although I agree with Treitschke that men make history, I do not   
   > forget that women raise boys to manhood. You know that the National   
   > Socialist movement is the only party that keeps women out of daily   
   > politics. This arouses bitter criticism and hostility, all of it very   
   > unjustified. We have kept women out of the parliamentary-democratic   
   > intrigues of the past fourteen years in Germany not because we do not   
   > respect them, but because we respect them too much. We do not see the   
   > woman as inferior, rather as having a different mission, a different   
   > value, than that of the man. Therefore we believed that the German   
   > woman, who more than any other in the world is a woman in the best   
   > sense of the word, should use her strength and abilities in other   
   > areas than the man.   
   > The woman has always been not only the man's sexual companion, but   
   > also his fellow worker. Long ago, she did heavy labor with the man in   
   > the field. She moved with him into the cities, entering the offices   
   > and factories, doing her share of the work for which she was best   
   > suited. She did this with all her abilities, her loyalty, her selfless   
   > devotion, her readiness to sacrifice.   
   > The woman in public life today is no different than the women of the   
   > past. No one who understands the modern age would have the crazy idea   
   > of driving women from public life, from work, profession, and bread   
   > winning. But it must also be said that those things that belong to the   
   > man must remain his. That includes politics and the military. That is   
   > not to disparage women, only a recognition of how she can best use her   
   > talents and abilities.   
   > Looking back over the past year's of Germany's decline, we come to the   
   > frightening, nearly terrifying conclusion, that the less German men   
   > were willing to act as men in public life, the more women succumbed to   
   > the temptation to fill the role of the man. The feminization of men   
   > always leads to the masculinization of women. An age in which all   
   > great idea of virtue, of steadfastness, of hardness and determination   
   > have been forgotten should not be surprised that the man gradually   
   > loses his leading role in life and politics and government to the   
   > woman.   
   > It may be unpopular to say this to an audience of women, but it must   
   > be said, because it is true and because it will help make clear our   
   > attitude toward women.   
   > The modern age, with all its vast revolutionary transformations in   
   > government, politics, economics and social relations has not left   
   > women and their role in public life untouched. Things we thought   
   > impossible several years or decades ago are now everyday reality. Some   
   > good, noble and commendable things have happened. But also things that   
   > are contemptible and humiliating. These revolutionary transformations   
   > have largely taken from women their proper tasks. Their eyes were set   
   > in directions that were not appropriate for them. The result was a   
   > distorted public view of German womanhood that had nothing to do with   
   > former ideals.   
   > A fundamental change is necessary. At the risk of sounding reactionary   
   > and outdated, let me say this clearly: The first, best, and most   
   > suitable place for the women is in the family, and her most glorious   
   > duty is to give children to her people and nation, children who can   
   > continue the line of generations and who guarantee the immortality of   
   > the nation. The woman is the teacher of the youth, and therefore the   
   > builder of the foundation of the future. If the family is the nation's   
   > source of strength, the woman is its core and center. The best place   
   > for the woman to serve her people is in her marriage, in the family,   
   > in motherhood. This is her highest mission. That does not mean that   
   > those women who are employed or who have no children have no role in   
   > the motherhood of the German people. They use their strength, their   
   > abilities, their sense of responsibility for the nation, in other   
   > ways. We are convinced, however, that the first task of a socially   
   > reformed nation must be to again give the woman the possibility to   
   > fulfill her real task, her mission in the family and as a mother.   
   > The national revolutionary government is everything but reactionary.   
   > It does not want to stop the pace of our rapidly moving age. It has no   
   > intention of lagging behind the times. It wants to be the flag bearer   
   > and pathfinder of the future. We know the demands of the modern age.   
   > But that does not stop us from seeing that every age has its roots in   
   > motherhood, that there is nothing of greater importance than the   
   > living mother of a family who gives the state children.   
   > German women have been transformed in recent years. They are beginning   
   > to see that they are not happier as a result of being given more   
   > rights but fewer duties. They now realize that the right to be elected   
   > to public office at the expense of the right to life, motherhood and   
   > her daily bread is not a good trade.   
   > A characteristic of the modern era is a rapidly declining birthrate in   
   > our big cities. In 1900 two million babies were born in Germany. Now   
   > the number has fallen to one million. This drastic decline is most   
   > evident in the national capital. In the last fourteen years, Berlin's   
   > birthrate has become the lowest of any European city. By 1955, without   
   > emigration, it will have only about three million inhabitants. The   
   > government is determined to halt this decline of the family and the   
   > resulting impoverishment of our blood. There must be a fundamental   
   > change. The liberal attitude toward the family and the child is   
   > responsible for Germany's rapid decline. We today must begin worrying   
   > about an aging population. In 1900 there were seven children for each   
   > elderly person, today it is only four. If current trends continue, by   
   > 1988 the ratio will be 1 : 1. These statistics say it all. They are   
   > the best proof that if Germany continues along its current path, it   
   > will end in an abyss with breathtaking speed. We can almost determine   
   > the decade when Germany collapses because of depopulation.   
   > We are not willing to stand aside and watch the collapse of our   
      
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