Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-09
How Hitler
Rat!onS People
10 Death

retioning the things they eat and wear and use
U to speed up the day doom for the crazy dreams
of the Axis lords
We taking sef-mposed curbs and restrictions
in stride, because know that it makes
and our Allies in spite of inconvenience and little
equality here and there
And as we pull in our belts another notch and settle
down To less fancy way OF life thank lucky
stars that the agents of shickegrber Company not
doing the ratonng us.
Although millions of written on the n-
pleasant subject many Americans don't yet realize
human brutality of the socaled raoning systems
Nazis have imposed the conquered peoples Europe
Some of tho incredible truth this aspect Of Hit
lers New Order is being told TO the public
by booklet just issued by the United office
Information 1t is called The Tale of A city"
It's story that never wiz be forgotten The follow
ing excerpts from it particularly timely enight-
ening right when are getting taste Of
ratiOnins America WIN conthe to eat and eat well but
the Poles particularly those in the tragic city Warsaw
are, Morally being rationed to death
Every hour of every day they know the horrible
ing of Goesises historic words. In sitting the pangs of
hunger. the Germans come first Is
Thousands of Poles in Warsaw are being kept just alive
enough in some cases to turn out goods for the German
war machine
That is the fruit Of warsaws membership in the Coy
eminent General the system by for use
in New Europe for control by Greater Germany Rule
OF course is under the Gestapo And the cost Of living has
risen than LOO per with wages the mini
NUNS Of pre-war contracts.
Bread-40 per cent saNdust fewer than five slices
per person per day is the Poles fare this winter
there be bread for the conquered peoples
saw Thin potato soup the only food that families
Food theoretically cntte the Poles each week to
about three ounces Of meat (the equivalent
States of one thin chopl each month 10 three
ounces Of flour and four and half
maade and one They rarely receive these 10 pro-
vision is made food cards for butter cheese green
vegetables Adults may not receive milk adult being
anybody older than six months
Food around Warsaw goes to Germans the spot IS
shipped into the Reich sent to feed German troops
war fronts
1--WE today in fortunate situation" Goering told
the people on October T. 1912 where the entire
udg iS
supplied solely from the conquered territories"
Food production in the Government General is strictly
regulated Every COW, chicken and hog registered
Using food as weapon to dcmoraze the population, the
Germans periodically artificial shortages.
times food reaches the city. Milk wastculy
punctured and eggs smashed sign Of German power
Even If they received all the food allowed under raonng
Poles would not sbsist for long The have planned
II that way the 19i1 persons were
born Warsaw. 500 In half 1882
before the New Order there had been births
pared with 1900 dea MS Warsaw today is dying out
To live. residents OF Warsaw seek the
Black Markets The Germans at fat profit have hand
in operating them But few persons afford Black Mar
ket prices An egg 60 pound Of pork
81 pound of butter between 50 and 81; coffee rarely
obtainabe, costs S48 to $50 a pouad.
Il not interested in heating the homes OF these
swine-the Poles" said the German Coal Commissioner
August 1871. Let them die" Warsaw in winter has
average temperature of five below and it sometimes
drops During the winter of 1904 the
mans allowed Poles buckeful Of coal every six
eight Coal this winter will be available only
the Black Market where half ton in the neighbor-
$16O. At the beginning of the occupation the
Nazs seized all apartment houses and offices in Warsaw
that equipped with steam heat Into these buildings
these buildings alone the coal that comes
from Upper Silesia U
Gas pressure is so low that it takes several hours to
warm a quart Without warning, sections Of the
city deprived of electricity often for two three
months time ON certain days all the electric current
is cut except to 10 p m Even without these
strcons Warsaw would be in darkness anyway when the
because the majority Of persons cannot
pay the electricity charges Eighty per cent OF
the people have been without sufficient light or heat since
the occupation