Sledgehammer Sex

Though women in The Fatherland are traditionally meek, a few bold spirits publish The German Woman Fighter, regularly print letters in which spinsters, widows, wives and mothers have their say. Last week a letter signed, "A Mother Who Was One of the First Adherents of the Nazi Reich," set parents agog by stating publicly how young girls fare in the camps and classrooms of the Nazi League of German Maidens.

"When, for instance, in a camp a 28-year-old male teacher constantly addresses 14 and 15-year-old girls as 'You growing mothers,' then the still slumbering feminine soul rebels," wrote the Nazi Mother. Her own 15-year-old daughter, she declared, changed from a happy, healthy child into one given to morbid brooding and thoughts of suicide after having to fill pages of her notebook with scientific data on venereal disease and physiological drawings.

"It is not silly prudery when I voice my feelings here," the letter concluded. "It is as if the flower of the youthful mind and sentiment were being killed off by . . . sledgehammer blows. . . . Girls are told they must marry as early as possible. . . . They are also told that every fourth man is diseased."

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