GERMANY: Windsors in Naziland

Facts about Germany which came over the cables last week as the world press eagerly followed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's inspection of how the common people fared in Naziland (TIME, Oct. 18):

¶ Unemployment has been reduced in the four years since Adolf Hitler came to power from just over 6,000,000 to just over 500,000.

¶The Nazi Winter Relief has 10,000,000 needy Germans card indexed. Its staff numbers 1,400 who expend yearly 400,000,000 marks ($160,680,000). To take one item, the Nazi Winter Relief distributed last year gratis 492,000 tons of coal, or one-third of the entire coal produce of...

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