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GERMANY HAS RAILED BACK TO BARBARISM
Nazi Policy Outrages Against Workers and Jews
But the worst tragedies are those of the thousands of poor homes that have been broken up, and whose breadwinners are in the jails or the new concentration camps. I saw the flats of two trade union men after they had been raided. All the pictures and ornaments were smashed. The wife and mother sat amid the ruins in the grey hopelessness of despair. “We got through the war, and the blockade, and the inflation. … I can’t stand any more. … I can’t start again!” The senseless savagery of it!
And the stories from the countryside are worse. But the most astonishing thing about the whole situation is that so few Germans know what is happening except in their own district. The stranglehold on the Press is com
