“They were trained in Spartan severity, taught to do without cosmetics, to dress in the simplest manner, to display no individual vanity, to sleep on hard beds, and to forgo all culinary delicacies; the ideal image was that of those broad-hipped figures, unencumbered by corsets, one of radiant blondeness, crowned by hair arranged in a bun or braided into a coronet of plaits”.

On the German League of Girls