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Bustling Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick established last week what he called the German Health Service Committee, readily admitting that it will have nothing to do with promoting “health” in the usual sense. The Service will promote fewer births among Germans of Jewish blood, more births among “pure German men and women, each of whom must be made more conscious of his or her biological value.”

In the middle of a keynote speech on Service in which he praised prolific Benito Mussolini (three boys, two girls), Minister Frick suddenly remembered that Adolf Hitler is a bachelor. “Our leader.” he hastily explained “devotes himself to our people at a sacrifice of his own person. He needs men to carry out the ideas and aims of Service which he has recognized as right.”

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