English Translation

T 158 2 My wife moved between her visit last year and the current comparison over the conditions in Slovakia. --- The diet of the working shifts was very poor last year, but has become significantly better in the meantime. --- Żwien der führende Schichte, party people Hlinka and the people is a big difference. He who is in a leading position has already acquired a fortune and he who has money can buy everything in shops; meat, as much as you want, the same with fat; 1 kg butter on the market 60.-K. Only there is very little money everywhere. --- The Slovak intelligence, mostly officers and students, speak out hostile to Germany; say that we did not need Hungary, nor the Czechs, nor do we need the Germans to lead us, our country is independent and can live quite well of itself. -- As far as the Jewish question is concerned, there has not been much change since the time of the Republic. In Michalovce, where in the republic of 20,000 inhabitants were 7,000 Jews, only the poor Jews were removed. The better Jewish class has converted to the Catholic faith, continues its business and a quite good life. Since last year no other Jew has left Michalrovce. It is said that the Šaño Mach only insults the Jews who remained with the Jewish religion. My wife also brought the life of her parents into a somewhat more regulated way during her visit. Her father works very hard until now, also her mother and two in a mill, where both were exploited by the owner. When my wife asserted that her parents were looking for a new apartment and resting a little, she was threatened that she should not mix in with the conditions there and added that she might also need some help in Slovakia if her husband was to be shot.Then again comes the Z,it, where her parents and perhaps she herself have to look for bread with the miller,-- In Slovakia the foreign stations are heard quite quietly and openly. My wife, for example, learned that in the last few days London had been rebuking my person with his insults. -- . My wife was a spectator, as for example a group of Slovak volunteers (SS) drove away, which the intelligence took up very miserably. People there are not at all aware of the danger of Bolshevism in Slovakia. My wife got the impression that the Enlightenment Service in the Slo-wakei places the emphasis on the exaggerated importance of the Slowa =kish state, something similar to what was previously observed in Poland, and that part of the Slovak intelligence is influenced by the London radio and has no real idea of the general world situation, while the workers are again leaning towards communism. -- The farmers are doing very well in Slovakia because they can charge very high prices for their products.