English Translation

With regard to the current situation, the government is now trying to take action against these abuses. The fight against 2O political opponents is the main objective for the time being. Since November 3, a large-scale arrest operation has started. For example, all persons suspected of communist activity, or who have already been convicted of such acts or who are still in custody, have been transferred to a concentration camp in the Reichsgebiet. In addition, public figures such as deputies, aristocrats and politicians with negative attitudes are arrested, as there is a risk that they will stand up for a counter-government in the event of further advance of the Soviets. Likewise, unreliable orders will also be dealt with. The mood of the large masses of the population continues to be characterized by a certain tiredness of war. However, the mood here is by no means anti-German, even if it is generally expected by the Germans that only they would be there to defend their capital. The gerlhl, which is primarily due to its own troops, does not come up at all. The rumor makers form an essential factor for the influence of mood. The population kalammert itself at every positive annoyance as against a saving straw, in order then to be only more desperate and dethous afterwards. At present, for example, there is the struggle of a Pope's peace, which has assumed such an extent that it itself had to be denied by the Catholic Church. The well-known rumor that Marshal Tymoshenko had renounced Stalin in order to form a national Ukrainian government, Marshal Budjeni had asked the German for free withdrawal from Hungary, persisted and a s Dukla-Pak 10 O00 Russians surrendered to the German Wehrmacht and sent her about 1000 tanks. This rumor has triggered great feasts of joy in the population and even caused a replacement coumando to carry out layoffs, although the Soviets, near this department, carried out energetic attacks.