English Translation

42 A 16 speaks little. On the other hand, there is a lot of applause for letting Hitler speak against Hitler. The English radio-propa- ganda is generally regarded favourably. 3) General mood reports The picture, which unrolls the above reports from the general mood in Germany, is carefully supplemented by the following reports, which are not classified in a special context. The following travel report of a neutral foreigner has already been printed in the "New Forward" of 26 November 1939. This was no longer Germany for me, but a strange and almost mysterious country, with a physiognomy that was distorted by unrest, uncertainty and fear, without being able to give a proper definition of these phenomena. From the old Austrian-Silesian border to Wrocław I had a long time delay. It was in the days when a lot of troops were thrown from east to west with guns and Fouragen. At every station we had to wait long to let military trains pass. I didn't get to see or hear anything from a happy soldier's mood. In casually neglected uniforms they pushed themselves on the platforms and tried to buy something at the buffets. Everything seemed to be hungry and thirsty. But even deeper than the soldiers impressed me my fellow travellers. Two peasant women with headscarves, a young man who had to stand in Wroclaw and a woman dressed in urban clothes in deep mourning with a child, were to be broken in st of my fellow travellers by some remarks directed against Poland. Only the two peasant women agreed with cinem apathic head nods. When I gave the child some sweets, the mother said: "There is no such thing with us anymore." They were obviously afraid to tell me, the traveller coming from abroad, even one word that could betray the true feelings.