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Hitler's Children, a full-length movie, confects a boy-girl romance as a vehicle for Ziemer's report on Nazi child-training. In Berlin a German-born U.S. schoolgirl meets a U.S.-born German lad who is being indoctrinated in a Nazi school. Several years later he is a Gestapo officer, she a teacher at Berlin's American school. In the course of their tragic, not too credible romance, the camera visits German parents fearful that their offspring will snitch on them, a girls' work camp where rabbit morals are encouraged, a state home...
...addition to looking into the future of the post-war social structure, these manufacturers lad some very practical discussions on what corporations can do even before hostilities cease. One of the most practical and definite talks of this nature, by D. C. Prince, vice president of General Electric, analyzed the techniques of market and product research which will stimulate after-war employment. This supplemented an earlier N.A.M. checklist of points for management to follow in aid of a better post-war economy...
...Wales, the post executive officer, "if he walks up to him and tells him to shut up, the fellow might take a swing at the fellow who tells him to pipe down. With the cross, by the time he turns it over and reads the printing the lad who handed it to him will be out of the play...
...slice of life, and you are not bored with details of an ordinary day. It reminds me of a reflection that I often make on how large a part of the time and thoughts of even the best of us are taken up by animal wants. ... But then this lad could write this book, which must be a work of art. It can't be accident and naivete. So let him survive...
pain and the fever? A clean and clever lad who is doing his best...