BITTERLY ANIT-NAZI

Evening Star, Issue 25003, 23 October 1943, Page 5

BITTERLY ANIT-NAZI

FEELING IN BIG GERMAN CITIES NERVE-FRAYED POPULACE (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 22. Furthen enlightenment on the gloom which recent war developments lias cast over Germany is given by a traveller who has just returned from the Keich. Interviewed hy the Stockholm ' Dagens Nyheter,' the traveller declared Uiat war disillusionment and criticism of the German Government were openly expressed in German cities, especially Munich, where a movement was afoot for an independent Danube monarchy after the war. He added: " The persecution of Catholics and the closing of the monasteries at Munich created most bitter anti-Nazi feelings and enmity against Prussia. Hamburg at first took the raids with British phlegm, but quarrels are now continually breaking out among the nerve-frayed population. Plundering and petty theft are rife: I heard one worker say: 'Unless 1 get a better place to live in I shall go sick. Lam tired of not having a roof over my head, with the rain dripping on to my bed. Forty per cent, of the workers in my factory disappeared after the raids, yet they want us to spend our spare time building stone bungalows for *±hose bombed out.' " The traveller added that there was the same pessimism in Berlin. The discontent is directed against the Government, andi not against the British who bombed them.

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