FIGHT IN DARK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 6

FIGHT IN DARK

ON GERMANY'S HOME FRONT. Some light on tile German home front is thrown by the correspondent of a Gothenburg newspaper, who writes: While the battle on the external fronts can be observed by the European public, which is carefully informed as to all its aspects, the struggle on Germany's inner front is waged in the dark. Very little news concerning ’this struggle reaches the public. He who travels through Germany now as journalist or business man can get the impression that, apart from great and e'er-increasing discontent among the masses and the absence of any war fever, there are no signs of strong political resistance to the Nazi system. When Berlin wakes' up from the dark war nights to the day’s work all traces of the nocturnal activity of the opposition has disappeared. The police, the Gestapo, and the S.S. have already had their forces at work for a long time. The town is cleaned of illegal leaflets ano the anti-llitler inscriptions on walls and notice-boards have been painted over. Only he who Jias lived many years in Germany, who is acquainted with all classes and quarters. and who. in fact, has entry to Slate, parly. Government. industrial and academic quarters gets any knowledge of this tight in the dark. On the one side stands a system which today ir lighting not only for its continued authority but for the very existence of its members. The Nazi system is in , control of every external means of force and employs them without any ; scruples. On the other side stands a , t mall group of determined, anonymous < lighters. They carry on their con- • test both inside and outside (he Nazi < Government apparatus with the most varied weapons. -