Adam & Eve

Several times in Germany last week sex officially reared its head:

P:The Government's vital statistics bureau announced that marriages in the Ostmark (onetime Austria) numbered 4,126 in July, almost quadrupling Austria's 1,092 in July 1937. Delighted, a bureau spokesman announced: "It is hoped that next year's birthrate in the Ostmark will be at least double that of 1938." Since August 1, however, more than 10,000 applications for divorce have been filed in Vienna. Reason: under papal law in Austria, a marriage in which one spouse was Roman Catholic was indissoluble by divorce; now that the Ostmark is under German law, divorce can be had easily on such grounds as refusal to have children.

P: The 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 kaeme es dann dazu, dass der anstaendige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Maedchen ansprechen koennte.]

P:A scandal of 1937 was that Nazi Labor Camps for boys were generally built close to the camps for girls, with a resulting high incidence of pregnancy. This summer, camps for the different sexes were separated, frequently by several miles. From Munich, however, accounts came last week of a new Labor Service scandal: at a rally in Nymphenburg Park appeared buxom, sun-bronzed Nazi wenches from the camps, engaging in athletic contests with Apollos from the boys' camps, both wearing nothing but G-strings. Photographers were barred by the police.

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