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Photo reconnaissance indicated that 80% of Germany's twin-engined fighter-plane production had been knocked out; 60% of her single-engined production is gone. In addition the raids destroyed 25% of the Reich's heavy-bomber building capacity, and 60% of transport production. Strategic bombing officials believe that if the victory is followed up, the Luftwaffe cannot make up its losses...
...many a British and U.S. citizen with no professional interest in the proof of air power, this was not entirely bad news, if true. Repatriated U.S. citizens-newsmen, diplomats stranded in Vichy, et al-returning from the Reich last week gave no encouragement to the happy thesis that Germany was going to fall on her face this year...
Sweden is as near to Germany as New York is to Boston-or Chicago to Detroit-so it is small wonder that there are so many people in Stockholm with firsthand news from the Reich...
Money. Many Germans worry about inflation. Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk recently tried to reassure an assembly of big shots at the Reichsbank: Never mind the rising tide of bank notes; the money situation is under control. But many people are buying whatever fixed values they can put their hands on (favorite investment: rare stamps, because they can be easily hidden and transported...
...Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...