Handbook for the Lucky

PEOPLE UNDER HITLER-Wallace R. Deuel-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50).

People Under Hitler is a convenient handbook for people who are not, and who wish to know in detail how lucky they are. Since Author Deuel has drawn on some 20 other books for much of his information, it lacks novelty, but not force. Some facts about the Nazi way of life: > Hitler said: "The program of our national socialist women's movement has only one point. That point is called the child." That has meant the almost total banishment of women from public office, their withdrawal from professions in favor of cannonfoddering and such "womanly" vocations as domestic service.

> A German citizen is legally permitted to say what he really thinks-in soliloquy or a private diary.

> Atonal music is prohibited; Handel's Judas Maccabeus has become Hero and Work for Peace. Artists who have painted a family group showing fewer than four children may not use the word "family" in the title-which puts the Holy Family in its place.

> "We do not know or recognize truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." The author of this statement, Dr. Ernst Krieck, is rector of Heidelberg. Between 1933-38 university enrollment dropped from 200,000 to just over 70,000. A worried military gazette reported: "Cadets show a striking inability to think logically."

> The Nazis have made an effort to induce Germans "by loving force" to read Nazi authors. Fairy stories have been restyled: The Sleeping Beauty is now a Sleeping Germany, bewitched by sinister Jewry and awakened to her happy destiny by the kiss of Prince Adolf.

> Between 1932 and 1939 the number of gainfully employed rose by 75%, man-hours per week per person from 41.4 to 47, weekly earnings by 31%. But the average German worker's weekly wage (in 1936) was $6.29; and one in every five was dependent on the Winter Relief Fund, which is made up of workers' "voluntary" contributions. Real achievements: Strength-Through-Joy cruises by which a workman could visit Madeira for $25 round trip, or spend a week in the Bavarian Alps for $11; vast expansion of theater, opera, concerts, adult education.

> In 1932, Germany averaged 2.3 children per family, but needed 3.4 to maintain her population. Within the next seven years the deadline for her decline of population was postponed by two decades.

On the floor of the Reichstag, before Hitler came to power, a woman delegate, a Social Democrat, was mourning her son who had fallen in the first War. A Nazi delegate shouted: "That's what you old nanny-goats were made for!" After Hitler came to power, mothers of four, six and eight children were awarded, respectively, medals of iron, silver, gold.

> Between 1938 and 1940, the Gestapo killed 100,000 mental and physical defectives. Up to the start of the war, 375,000 more defectives had been sterilized, and 1,500 to 2,000 sex criminals had been castrated.

> As for human intelligence and that steeper virtue, integrity, there is Hitler's immortal remark: "The greatest of spirits can be liquidated if its bearer is beaten to death with a rubber truncheon."

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