English Translation

56 A 34 workers are driven by a thriving trade. One is large. Undergrinding of food cards on the track, which have occurred in the employment office in Mulackstrasse. 13 officials are said to be fleeting. During September alone, 17 burglary thefts were committed in the Apparel Office in Lehrter Strasse, without even a single burglar being able to be caught. At the same time, the Office does not at all make the impression that there are large stocks piled up there, because whole halls are completely empty there. Northern Germany: The supply of food and food supplies seems to be very different. If, for example, I find out from Berlin that although fuel is scarcely distributed on a regular basis, I hear from small towns and also from Kiel that the supply of fuel is very poor. Especially in the small places there is an absolute lack in this area. The treatment of food consignments also seems to be very different. In some places, for example, butter is used to offset the received consignments during the distribution of fat. In Hamburg, again, we have lived that butter is handed out without further delay, but under a very considerable customs duty. A fabrikant, who travelled 14 days Germany in various areas, told me against that that his business friends strongly advised him not to send butter, because in most cases immediately after receiving the package the SA seemed to be present and had to "pray" for the delivery of the butter to the inferior ones. What this request looks like, everyone knows. Fish and poultry are to have in free trade and in front of these shops one sees the people standing in Jangen chains. Clearly, the aim of the government is to keep the population in the belief that although nothing is in abundance, the existing is justly distributed. Northwest Germany (report from a small town): We get two loaves, a pound of meat, a pounds of cold cuts for two people per week. Each one an egg, a half pound of margarine, a quarter pound of bacon or fat. If I get a quarter of a litre of oil, then I have to drop a quarter pounds of mar- garine. In addition, we get three quarters of pounds of corn coffee. There is no tea, cocoa, greypeas, peas, beans and soap at all. I have therefore not been able to wash since four weeks.