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...last week with the old, hitherto wishful story that Germany is running out of oil. This time MEW said officially, flatly, that German oil production from all sources had fallen to half the essential needs of the German armed forces. Supporting evidence: bombs have destroyed at least half the Reich's synthetic oil plants, knocked out all Rumanian refineries (except possibly "Romano-Americana," formerly owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey). Rumanian crude must be carried to German refineries by vulnerable railroads or Danube barges, then sent back as gasoline to the eastern front. The Germans have exhausted their...
...travelers from Occupied Europe reached Turkey. They had traveled separately, did not even know each other. But both had talked with officials in the Reich. In Ankara, both gave much the same account of Germany's last hope...
...that event, the official Germans tell one another, the occupied countries of Europe would again fall into despair. The U.S. and Britain would be shaken beyond repair; Roosevelt and Churchill would surely fall. "With its war won anyway," Russia would make its own peace with the Reich...
...string beans at $5.50 a lb., rice at $5 a lb. Their husbands probably had not worked for months. Until the Nazis left, able-bodied male Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
Mammoth banners wavered over German stadiums. The Reich's annual sport contests went off on schedule. Hitler Youths and Hitler Maidens displayed their prowess and affirmed their faith. The radio said that there would be no invasion now because Moscow did not want...