TOPICS OF THE DAY
Lack of Enthusiasm for War “ Direct enthusiasm for the war can be observed but seldom in Germany. Little is known of what is happening in the war. As a rule soldiers do not come home on leave; their relatives seldom get to know whether they are alive or dead, and it is forbidden to wear mourning for a fallen soldier. Material cares appear to engage the thoughts of people more than what the Fuhrer and his associates have on hand. When watching newsreels at the cinema and the desolation of enemy lands, with the “ manly ” German airmen smiling sadistically as they point to their work, the people remain quite passive, no clapping, no ovations, nothing of the chauvinistic passion one might have expected from the propaganda orgies of the press. It is as if they are oppressed by their own experiences of the terrors of bombraiding and cannot easily forget them.”—From a neutral correspondent lately in Germany, in The Times, London.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21357, 27 February 1941, Page 6
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