Evening star., 1943-11-30
Berlin Public Declared
Aware War Is Lost,
But Can Do Nothinq
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN. Switzerland, Nov. 80
Nazi-controlled reports of the havo,
wrought on Gernany's economi,
life and the morale of her popula
tion by Allied air attacks are onl,
a shadow of the real thing, write
in the Swiss weekly LIllustre sale
yesterday in an article entitled, &c
Return from Berlin"
His vivid story describing con
ditions before the attacks last week
which made Berlin the most bombed
city in the world, declared: IF for.
eign journalists in Berlin were fret
to write what they wished they
would write only of bombing at.
Racks"
: He wrote this description of Ber.
lin before the recent mass attacks
: What do the people of Berlin
say? Speak to any of them alone
and men, women and children say
they have had enough of hunger
and suffering and orders. of being
kept ignorant of the future, of re-
nouncing all pleasures, of living
almost like beasts, or being no long
er like human beings.
:. Aware War Is Lost.
: "They tell you they are we'll aware
sthe war is lost. But they also say
they can do nothing against au-
"thority because every rebellion
eevery criticism, even every sign O,
passive resistance Is severely pun.
lshed.
. Thousands of SIS men (Hitler's
Elite Guards ceaselessly patrol the
~city. Every building head is in.
,structed to spy on the occupants
They also tell you every opposition,
will only serve to hasten the Boil
..shevist invasion, because of that
'they must defend the Reich at the
cost of the greatest sacrifices.
Everybody is convinced the wal
will decide not only the fate of the
regime, but also the fate of the ma
ton"
A Budapest dispatch to the news.
paper La Suisse of Geneva said that
the SIS organ, Das Schwarze Korps
violently attacked Germans who
mention the Allied aerial attacks or
Berlin in their letters to soldiers
at the front.
Any such statements are an "aic
to enemy propaganda" said the
dispatch. which also reported great
influx of refugees from Berlin al
Vienna, Leipzig, Halle and Dresden
The Princess of Liechtenstein
wife of Prince Francis Joseph II
ruler of the little principality be-
tween Switzerland and Austria, was
quoted in the Budapest article a.
describing "the terrifying days o1
the Berlin bombing" The princess
was said to have left Berlin en- route
abroad.
Before the great new attacks more
than 100000 Germans already had
lost their homes, furnishings ano
clothing, becoming proletarian have
nothings" from one day to the next
the L'Illustre writer said.
Trying to Evacuate People.
Hitler's National Socialist "catas-
trophe squads" were straining to re-
move people from Berlin and other
heavily bombed centers lest they
contribute even more to the collapse
of the home front. The greater part
of these have lost one, two or three
members of their families.
There was not single hour that
Germans did not think anXiously oi
the next bombing and this constant
dread had made life in Berlir
wretched even though the capita
had not yet undergone its great at
tacks, the writer said. The examples
of Hamburg and Mannheim had sc
impressed the Berliners that they
preferred to leave the capital nightly
to sleep in suburbs or even under
the open sky.
The writer told how one night he
invited a Berlin woman to dinner
and served sardines brought from
Rome-the first his guest had tasted
for two years. Nonetheless, when
the sirens sounded his guest dashed
like a madwoman for a shelter. All
others do the same and this is re-
peated nightly"