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What Johnny Johnson wants to bring home to U.S. youth today is that it takes no supermen to fill these jobs. For flying officers the physical examination is tough, but it takes no crack athlete to pass it. The educational requirement, two years of college, can be met by passing a written examination, and last week the Air Corps eased up on its requirements. As if he hadn't troubles enough already, last week Johnny Johnson got another problem to chew. Announced by bald Assistant Secretary of War for Air Bob Lovett was a program for training...
...Lindbergh assumes that the German soldiers are supermen with no nerves, and that therefore Britain can never invade the continent," Mowrer stated. "But the Germans are really a hysterical race, and as in the last war they would probably give up if their offensive were successfully stopped...
...Supermen cannot be made by eating gelatin as some recent advertisements have intimated, according to Dr. D. B. Dill of the Fatigue Laboratory, which last year carried out an extensive experiment with the effects of gelatin on the strength and endurance of athletes...
...Alfred Rosenberg, who began life as a drawing teacher and is now chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into...
...working 55-Service Troops and Death's Head Brigade-are not only entrusted with keeping German order but with producing a great race of supermen for puny Herr Himmler. 55 marriages-the bride's physical qualifications and racial background are thoroughly investigated-were once surrounded with Druidic ceremonies to impress the young couple with the ancient background of their Teutonic destiny. 55 colonies for young married couples are made attractive breeding grounds. Smart Herr Himmler has made his police service not only a service but a cult...