English Translation

A 19 17 my girlfriend, whether I could buy a chicken. She said yes and I went to a poultry store. But I got nothing, because there was nothing there. When I told my Freun- din that nothing was to be bought, she said that she did not say that poultry was there either, she only meant that it was free of cards. Something like that often happens. In general: No real enthusiasm at all. However, much nervousness, bragging and loud noise, especially among the Nazis. With the old comrades a certain confidence. Of communists nothing can be found anymore. Most former communists have either become Nazis, and not only after the Hitler-Stalin Pact, or they have fallen into total lack of interest. There is, by the way, no defender of this alliance anywhere in the working class. 2. Report: My old acquaintances in X. and later in Y. overwhelmed me with a thousand questions. They were better informed about the political and military situation than I had assumed. There was hardly a single one who did not regularly hear the foreign broadcasts in German. But it struck me that in all circles of the population there is much more talk of nutritional issues than of politics. Everyone is rushed by the worry, how do I get my ration? How can I get something beyond that? On Sunday morning I saw at the station in X. snakes of people in front of the billet counters with backpacks and handbags. They spoke quite openly of the fact that they went to the villages to friends and acquaintances to take care of themselves. Half the children in the uniform of the Hitler youth were present. In the restaurants every waiter deschools that this and that on the menu is no longer to be had, although it is already "simple" enough. My hostess complained bitterly about the handlers who, despite the threat of punishment, gave up goods at higher prices. Before I left, she asked me to leave my soap with her. Open outbreaks of dissatisfaction have mostly only been heard by women who are in a truly gruelling struggle for the daily procurement of the necessities of life. Everyone will be envied, who could still wear clothes and, above all, shoes. However, one fears that the dear Nachbar denunciated and the Gestapo will come looking for a home. And everyone is afraid that it would get even worse. The desperate and hopeless mood that comes from this lack. according to my observations is the decisive factor in all excesses about war.