INTELLIGENCE IN VIENNA
Figures based on reliable reports from Vienna, point to as high a percentage as 75 out of every lf'o of the pe' p*e there being now strongly anti-Nazi. These include not onlr manual workers, but the middie-c!as:-; once very favourable to the Nazi cause. Tin Viennese, through al! l!:cir hard time- following tiie last war. never lo«t love of a joke. An which help • them- to bear their yet greater hardships of to-day, Their latest jest \< the story el' a maid who applied for a position in aj household and stated that site muslrave OH marks a month. The prospective employers objected that the sum was extortionate. The current rate of pay was only 10 marks. •'Yes. 1 ' came the retort, "but 1 have to charge ten marks extra for keeping silent about your 'black-market" purchases: and another ten marks for keeping quiet about your listening to the BBC." To which the mistress of the house replied that the family lived on its legitimate rations and listened only to Nazi broadcasts. "In that case," the maid answered. "I am certainly not going to work in a house v.'he re the people are both hungry and stupid." And she flounced out.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 49, 6 May 1942, Page 6
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