English Translation

A 36 There are no more queues in front of the shops, however, as it is punished. Ruhrgebiet (chamber plant): The work performance itself would have to be endured, if the food situation had not constantly worsened. Heavy-duty workers get 1,200 gr. meat on cards, i.e. they should get that, but often the meat is not there. Fat and butter are missing even more often. Not to talk about eggs at all. Now every household had to submit an order form to a small distributor. In the future there should only always be eggs with the same small distributor . So- probably buyers like small distributors are bound to it . Often just the egg section falls, because there are no eggs to have. Then they should be delivered later , but there can be a long wait . The authorities then talk out of themselves with transport difficulties. The people are beginning to starve, as far as they can't cover up a little bit in the back. The fear of the future is therefore increasing and occasionally even the discontent is expressed. But it still prevails the fear. 2) Over-stressing and technical decay of the Reichsbahn Trains of war preparation and the new replacement industries have often been neglected in the renewal and improvement of the existing technical apparatus. This is particularly true of the Imperial Railways. Their means of transport were increasingly used for the transport of goods and people employed for the Re- gim's power policy objectives. At the same time, the wear of the rolling material and the superstructure was accelerated, because the raw materials, iron and wood, needed for its proper maintenance, were used for even more warlike purposes. In their report of September last year, the management of the Reichsbahn found that the newly ordered wagons were only slowly arriving and that there was no compensation for the rising demand for the cargo space. At that time, according to the Reichenbahn's own information, 80.00o freight wagons (cf. "Deutschland-Berichte", issue 11/1938, page