English Translation

A 23/2 is, when generally accepted, still the main question remained, how will England and France stand up to it. The Nazis and their co-cryers of course believe that it would be over with the world empire of England now, since one does not want to fight for England in France after all. Of course the wish is the father of thought. Everywhere among the population it is said that those who have so far run around in a uniform are now pretty at home in civilian homes, while the former civilians are in the military. The letters sent home by the conscripts do not help to raise the mood, whether they come from a garrison, a bunker on the western front or from the east. It has to be even worse, as in the last war. Only yesterday a farmer who is on vacation told me that the treatment is exactly as he saw it in the movie "In the West nothing new" at the time with the sergeant Himmelstoss. Even with them people had to crawl under the table. However, he refused and explained himself in one case. The treatment by the officers is generally felt to be more bearable than that by the non-commissioned officers and sergeants. The food is praised everywhere. Most explain that the soldiers have better food than the working population can afford. In any case, the soldiers do have more than what the civilian population gets on cards. In the population circles in which there is some political training and which look at things a little more sober, one does not believe in an early end of the crisis. Likewise, in these circles it is not believed that Russia will be as good a support as is always shown in the official omissions. I keep hearing that either we have been lied to about Russia for six years or we are now being lied to. So quickly a state as neglected as Russia has always been described, could not have changed. Many believe that the peace offer of hit- lers will already be such that the Western powers can accept it un-possible and that it is only the purpose of the whole peace act to pretend to the people that the English are to blame for everything. West Germany: The only thing that can perhaps be kept completely objec- tively at the same time is the