Woe to the Weak

"This winter no German shall starve!" promised Adolf Hitler last month, and straightway set about raising a Winter Relief Fund of 500,000,000 marks ($175,000,000 Roosevelt), largest in German history. Though contributions are supposed to be "voluntary," resolute Storm Troops have enforced the principle that German workers must contribute 1% of their net wages, salaried employes a little more, housewives a monthly sum which they are required to save by denying their families one hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark fund is administered by the German Red Cross, Evangelical Church, Catholic Church and Nazi Relief Bureau. Last week the Nazi Bureau announced that it has veto power "in every case of proposed relief."

How this power will be used, beginning this week when the Winter Relief Fund starts to operate, Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick hinted when he declared: "Modern humanitarianism, which allows the weak and degenerate to propagate their kind, is nothing less than cruelty to the nation!" Quietly last week Nazi relief workers let it be known that families tainted with cancer, tuberculosis and particularly venereal diseases will be taken care of last, while the healthy destitute receive first call. Jews will receive not a pfennig of the Chancellor's 500,000,000 marks, but have the privilege of helping each other through the Jewish Relief Bureau. Communists, denied the right to organize a Red Relief Bureau, can aid their destitute only by stealth.

Until last week German employment bureaus operated by the State made no distinction, in theory at least, between Nazis and non-Nazis who applied for jobs, aided all applicants on the basis of first come first served. Abruptly Chancellor Hitler ordered this "lack of discrimination" to cease, ruled that no job may be given to a non-Nazi until work has been found for all Nazi applicants at a given employment bureau. Thus hundreds of thousands of German unemployed were suddenly barred last week from their best if not their only chance of getting work. For them it is too late to join the Nazi Party, now an oligarchy almost as exclusive as the Communist Party which rules Russia.

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