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...Altmark to be unarmed, were unaware of any prisoners aboard. Would the British please respect Norway's neutrality, withdraw from her waters? Captain Vian & mates pulled out beyond the three-mile limit where they lay watchfully, awaiting further Admiralty instructions. While they waited, along came the German tanker Baldur which, accosted by the destroyer Ivanhoe, scuttled and fired herself...
...Besides the homing Altmark and Baldur, the British and French last week intercepted and captured two out of six Nazi ships trying to slip home from Vigo, Spain. Germany's first and big Altmark revenge was torpedoing the destroyer Daring with loss...
...Nazi ideology the paternal State watches over the acts, minds, morals and even the manners of its children. So last week self-confident young Baldur von Schirach-who although only 30 is generally rated high in the Nazi Party as head of the Hitler Youth organization-looked on Germany's marriageable daughters and decided something should be done to make them more attractive. For the blue-skirted, white-bloused young Mädchen who have stomped past him at innumerable parades, he decreed beauty culture...
...laws reached into many a German pocket, another took over the young German's body if not his soul. Hereafter every German boy and girl, "without exception," must join the Hitler Youth "to be trained physically, spiritually and morally." Declared newly appointed Youth Leader of the German Reich Baldur von Schirach: "The lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler." At this announcement Catholics throughout Germany grew fearful, wondered if an insidious attack was being made on their religion. Nor were they much reassured when Youth Leader Schirach said...
What Lord Baden-Powell did not know was that one set of German scouts, the German Boy Scout Association, was in fact attached to his organization and that the Hitler Youth leader, Baldur von Schirach, had passed it by. Last week von Schirach announced that it, too, "is no longer warranted," dissolved it and forbade its leader. Eberhard Plewe, to conduct further work among boys. The last of the German Scouts laid away their fleur-de-lis Scout badges. Presently they will be issued the swastika emblems of Hitler Youth...