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I Raised My Children in Nazi Germany




Life Under Dictator Rule



MARION HOWE



A Fascinating Personality, a Keen and Intelligent Observer, This Smith Graduate Gives a Frank, Factual Account of the Everyday Experiences of an American Mother and Her Children Under Dictator Rule.  Six Years in Berlin Among Germans as a German.




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MARION HOWE

I Raised My Children in Nazi Germany


MARION HOWE,
 Smith graduate who later studied at Columbia and in Paris, is a young American mother who lived six years in Berlin among Germans as a German.  She never gave up her American citizenship.  Aryan and from a conservative Middle West family, she is neither anti-Semitic, nor a Jewish propagandist.  Recently, she returned to her homeland, United States, with her two children, and is free to give an unbiased account of their life under a German dictator.





A Fascinating Personality — Keen Observer



Here is a fascinating personality, an intelligent and keen observer, who gives a frank, factual account of the everyday experiences of a mother and her children under dictator rule.  Some of her stories have great dramatic intensity, and, at times, are even sensational.  She tells what is going on beneath the surface—inside information about Germany from the inside.





Resident of Europe for Eleven Years



Miss Howe has lived in Europe continuously for the past 11 years.  She speaks French and German as fluently as she does English.  As the wife of an Austrian-Sudeten of noble rank, Armand Gobiet, she was in Vienna from 1927 to 1929, when it was gay.  From 1929-32 she lived in a small town in Czechoslovakia in the Sudeten area, about a half hour from both the German and Polish borders.





Watched Hitler Build His Powerful Nazi Machine



It was in 1932 that her husband's extensive antique business brought him to Berlin.  There she lived for 6 years.  This period in Berlin included the close of the Bruning regime, the Hindenberg era and the rise of Hitler to complete control of Germany with his powerful Nazi machine.  As she was actively associated with her husband in his business, she traveled extensively in Germany, made frequent trips to Holland and London, contacted many important and interesting personalities in a business and social way.  She knows what it means to attempt to carry on a business under dictator rule.





Raised Two Daughters in Nazi Germany



But more than anything else, she raised two daughters, now 9 and 12 respectively, in Nazi Germany, sending them to schools, where racial hatreds are kindled and tattling is a virtue.  In a country infested with spies, where it was impossible to know whether the maid in your house, your neighbor, your grocer, even a friend might be a secret agent or provocateur, it was extremely difficult not only to live, but to raise and educate two daughters to American ideals.





Talks, Frank and Revealing — Actual Personal Experiences



In her most revealing talks, Miss Howe discusses not only her own and her daughters' varied and exciting experiences, but the relationship between parents and children under Nazi rule, how the Hitler Jugend and the Bund fur Deutsche Maedchen instill Nazi principles and ideas into the minds of the boys and girls.  It often occurs in families, where the parents are not thoroughly sympathetic with the government, that the feelings of respect and confidence which should exist between parents and their children are so destroyed that the parents are often afraid to talk in front of their own children for fear of denunciation.  Miss Howe describes how news is suppressed over the radio, in the newspapers, the difficulty of getting foreign radio stations because of especially built German static machines, punishment meted out for listening to Russian stations, etc.





A Delightful Speaker — Makes You Appreciate U. S.



Miss Howe is a delightful speaker, who appeals to all types of audiences.  Dean Edgar A. Holt of Omaha University said that 
her fine stimulating personality and the experiences which she had in dictator Europe captivated a large audience.
  The president of the Wayne Association of University Women reported that 
she presented a vivid picture of living conditions in a country ruled by a dictator and gave a comprehensive picture of conditions there today.
  
She gave a splendid address before the Omaha Pro Tem Club,
 says President Max Miller.  
Her intimate knowledge of conditions, coupled with a rare ability to paint vivid word pictures, made her remarks worthy of the fine attention they received.
  These are excerpts from just a few reports from the 30 engagements she recently filled in and about Omaha, her home.  The success of these talks was so pronounced and the subject matter so timely that she was signed to an exclusive contract by The Redpath Bureau of Chicago.





Lecture Subjects:



I Raised My Children in Nazi Germany


Life Under Dictator Rule