GERMANY: They Are So Tired

A Swiss came out of Germany, wrote in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of German city workers' "incredible toughness." But he added: "It is quite clear that the Allies' air offensive has already affected this spirit considerably." And then: "Traffic in the raided cities is difficult and takes a long time. The smallest task demands an effort. . . . Why exert yourself, if you may be dead tomorrow? . . . [The people] are so tired they crave for the end of everything at any cost."

Echoed another Swiss paper, Berner Tagwacht: "In reply to Goebbels' war cry: 'Let them...

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