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Farm Land. "Nowhere did we see any signs of burned crops, such as might be expected under the Soviet scorched-earth policy, although almost all tools, tractors and livestock had been removed or destroyed." For the job of reclamation, the Germans had brought Sonderführer (special leaders) from German farms. These little Fuhrers, used to tending small German farms, were dismayed to find themselves put in charge of almost 100,000 acres each...
...springs; the Gudgers' kitchen bucket with its "fishy-metallic kind of shine and grease beyond any power of cleaning"; the exact texture of the house's pine siding; the stinking clay yard, and "the chilly and small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...
...crushed bean which turns into meal, the Commodity Year Book says: "More than 95% . . . is used for feeding livestock and poultry. . . . The feeding of livestock does not lend itself to dramatization and human interest stories, and therefore many people are led to believe that the minor uses of soybean oil meal are the major uses...
...week's end the report had not been confirmed, but in any case, Ukraine rains had been torrential for almost a month, and detailed descriptions poured through Europe's gossip centers of "an avalanche of unstemmed water, floating wreckage and drowned men, trees, livestock, and houses down to the delta." Berlin said that German artillery had foiled the blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers...
...Hitler wants foodstuffs for a badly nourished Germany and New Order Europe. He would get 78% of Russia's cultivated land (260,000,000 acres), a somewhat higher percentage of Russian livestock. But Russia has seldom been much more than self-sufficient as to food. War damage would make export surpluses highly un likely. Hitler could scarcely afford to steal important quantities of food from the peasants responsible for succeeding crops. As a long-term investment, handled with German efficiency, Russia's "great granaries" might prove a mighty asset, but the immediate profit would undoubtedly be quite small...