Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fearing Nazi oppression, about 30% of the Jewish population of the Free City of Danzig were announced to have fled abroad last week. Danzig Nazis of the Hitler Youth raided a synagogue, trampled and tore up the sacred Hebrew scrolls. Notice was served on 400 Jews owning houses in Danzig that next month Aryans will "purchase" their property. The Jews will be forced to sell out at Nazi-dictated prices...
...Soviet police last week jailed numerous Komsomol (Communist Youth Organization) leaders in the Ukraine and White Russia, who were accused of fomenting pogroms, according to Swedish press reports from Moscow. Stirred up by Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly widespread" antiSemitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish riots were suppressed by Red Army troops...
...Will To Have Children, a Nazi magazine, came out in Berlin with an attack on marriage bureaus, an appeal to virile Nazi youth to speak directly for itself. The writer, Herr Doktor Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...least one section of world Jewry took the Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman...
...born children of Italian parents, for a trip to Italy. It packs them aboard drip at New York, pays all their expenses. When they arrive in Italy, the children are sent to camps and clapped into the black-shirted uniform of the Balilla, Fascist youth organization. They march in military drills, learn to give the Fascist salute and to sing the praises of Mussolini. After touring Italian cities, where they are banqueted and reviewed by Government officials, back they go to the U. S., devout Fascists all, to awe and convert their neighbors...