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Bottom of the Barrel

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TIME

> Berlin newspapers announced the military call-up of all men not yet mobilized from the classes of 1884 to 1893 (men now 51 to 60).

> Swiss sources learned that Nazi authorities have ordered all industry and business through the wringer again to squeeze out another 900,000 fighting men. Reason: last year’s “total mobilization,” aimed to procure 2,000,000 more soldiers, produced barely 500,000.

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