GLOOMY COMPLAINTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1943, Page 4

GLOOMY COMPLAINTS

AND CRITICISM OF NAZIS I FINDING OPEN EXPRESSION IN GERMANY TRAVELLER GIVES DETAILS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. Further light on the gloom which recent war developments have cast over Germany is given by a traveller just returned from the Reich. Interviewed by the Stockholm “Dagens Nyheter,” the traveller declared that war disillusionment and criticism of the German Government were openly expressed in German cities, especially Munich, where a movement is afoot for an independent Danube monarchy after the war. He added: "The persecution of Catholics and the closing of monasteries in Munich has created most bitter anti-Nazi feelings and enmity against Prussia. Hamburg at first took 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 I can get a better place to live in, 1 shall go sick. I am tired of not having a roof over my head, with 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 those bombed out. ” The traveller added that there was the same pessimism in Berlin. Discontent was directed against the Government, not against the British who bombed them.