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Military commanders have a duty to keep their military personnel in good health and ready for action. With no better data than the trumped-up false data supplied by circumcision advocates such as Remondino and Wolbarst, many military commanders, knowing that soldiers may visit prostitutes, ordered their personnel soldiers to be circumcisedsubjected to mandatory circumcision.
When With the advent of World War II started in September 1939, the situation was little changed and again circumcision of soldiers was ordered by many commanders.
→The world at war: Edit text.
Wolbarst's paper was published in January 1914. World War I started in August 1914.
This practice was abandoned at least 60 years ago, but it left the impression in American minds that circumcision somehow prevented contracting a sexually transmitted disease.