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...From the bomb-shambles that once was Hamburg, civilian jitters spreading through the Reich-making it necessary to evacuate Berlin, sending a million homeless Germans shuffling down roads to nowhere, rousing scared German workers to strike, stirring imported foreign labor to clamor for repatriation...
...bewildered people of Germany knew what had happened; so did the five-million-odd foreign workers in the Reich. Stockholm reported that in Berlin 10,000 Italians went on strike, demanding to be sent back to Italy immediately, and that demonstrators sang the International, made bonfires of portraits of Hitler, Nazi Party membership cards and insignia. Leaflets were circulated: "Germans, what the Italians can do we can do. . . . Only the Nazis stand in the way of that peace for which we all long. Down with Hitler, Goebbels and Göring." In most cases the police avoided open conflict with...
...mass exodus from Italian cities. Spanish Fascists in Berlin, newspaper correspondents who until lately had written of coming German offensives, cabled Madrid newspapers that the Germans were now in extrema defensa (a last stand)-and that Nazi militarists now talked of a "wall of blood" around the shaken Reich...
Like a dank whiff from a tomb, the news from Italy flowed over the Alps and oozed across the Reich. People high and low glanced at one another, calculating...
...motive was plain: able-bodied Frenchmen in the Reich (1,250,000 war prisoners plus 1,150,000 Nazi-drafted laborers) will not only toil for the New Order but they will be less likely to join the Allied army of liberation when the day of deliverance comes...