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...quietest Easter in years, so it was. Indeed, nothing happened at all at all -nothing only a few fire bombs in a Belfast theater and four Royal Ulster constables shot, one for keeps, God rest his soul...
While thousands of young Americans prepared to receive their first Easter Communion, 1,100,000 German youths, just turned 14, had a first Nazi "communion" two weeks before Easter-complete with organ music, readings from Mein Kampf, sermons based on the Führer's writing. Reich Youth Leader Arthur Axmann spoke over the radio for the Berlin ceremony, cited Hitler as a name to worship and an example for all young people to follow...
...Nazi "communion" is henceforth to take place every year around Easter, to incorporate each year's new crop of youth into the party. Church Communions, as such, will not be prohibited, but the Nazis expect that the "civil communion" will draw most of Germany's youth, and that religious services for Germans are "doomed to be crowded out by the new life of new times...
...Easter Sunday nearly 11,000 Norwegian clergymen resigned in protest against the Quisling regime-leaving only about 40 retaining their posts...
...spite of the unprecedented tax drain, the U.S. went on an Easter shopping spree. Department-store sales jumped 10% to 70% to an alltime Easter peak. Best sellers were clothes (especially woolen garments), radios, refrigerators, shoes. Individual purchases were huge: a dozen socks or stockings, two and three suits or dresses, shoes three pairs at a time, shirts and blouses by half-dozens. Mob scenes in stores were frequent. In Philadelphia and Cincinnati, stores ran ads begging customers to buy less. In some places the police had to keep order...