The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-14
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 Along with the mounting wave of : speculation on the whereabouts and . condition of Hitler were linconfirm- ed reports from the continent of chaotic conditions in Germany.
 The reports were received with z reservation pending more authori- tattve information on the German - peoples acceptance or rejection of the Nazi heirarchy's desperate eff no forts to bolster resistance against the Allies winter campaign. s,A German industrialists arriving \ in Switzerland told newspapermen that nearly chaotic conditions v prevailed in southwest Germany, with hordes of foreign workers and escaped prisoners of war terrorizlng the countryside.
 The workers and prisoners, swiss dispatches said, escaped after the recent bombing of Stuttgart and other industrial centers in that . area.
 \ A Stuttgart newspaper was quot X, ed as saying the entire Hitler youth organization in southern Germany M had been ordered to the front to dig trenches, and all camps and Boarding schools had closed. Spec ial trains carry ten of thousands of boys to the western front, the newspaper was quoted. -o- Other Swiss sources quoted un- confirmed frontier reports as saying ReichSmarshal Hermann Goering and other ranking olives had ar- rived in Ludwigshafen to survey the situation.
 ',o Financial Panic
 The D. s. Office of War Infor- nation reportedthat Stockholm press dispatches said financial panic worse than that experienced dur ing the bank crash of 1881 was sweeping Germany The report, re- !ayed from New York, said runs had started on many German banks atter the arrest of two prominent German bankers.
 The bankers were arrested osten- slnly for refusing to accent short term German treasury notes. the report said, suggesting that the ac- Iuai reason might have been a re- Iusal to support the labor front bank, which has been reported in financial difficulties.'' ~
 OaIic1al Allied circles remained aloot from the growing discussion over Hitler's health and where + anouts, but cautioned against wish ful thinking.
 A British government spokesman m commons refused to answer uues- tons from the House about a ru- more that Hitler had fled to spain. 7- Premier Dr. Stephen Tiso of the puppet state of Slovakia was said to have been among those whose appointment to confer with Hitler nao been cancelled on short notice.
 A London Daily Herald dispatch from Stockholm said Dr. Otto Diet rich, German press chief who cus- tomarily gives Hitler a daily report on world events and opinion, re- peasedly has been sent away with put seeing the Fuehrer.
 Hltler's personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffman, has been unable to issue any photographs of Hitler since dSeptember, the Herald said.
 It added that reliable sources re- ported Hitler still was alive during the last weeks of October, but caus- ing his immediate entourage great anxiety. Living in an armored train, Hitler became so restless and ap- prehensive over Allied bombing that he rarely spent more than two days in one place. He ordered the train run into the deepest conven- tent tunnel each night, the dispatch sand.
 Surprise
 Observers pointed out that Ger man radio assurances of Hitler's good health yesterday were broad cast only for overseas consumption and expressed surprise that the Germans were devoting so great a propaganda effort to an attempt to prove Hitler well when a single min- ute speech from the Fuehrer him. self would do the job 100 per cent more effectively.
 While speculation mounted over Hitler's fate, Gestapo chief Heln- rich Himmler, who read a procla- I1aGlOL III IIlC ECuAICA AlaAIAC OuAA- day, appeared to be taking over more and more of his functions. ,. The clandestine Atlantic radio station said Himmler has taken ..~ over command of the Reich labor service. formerly supervised by 1r Hitler himself, and had ordered that all army propaganda compan- y ies be replaced by similar organiza- s tions of the SS.
 Eclipse Hitler's former No. l friend and designated successor, Reichmarshal 4 Hermann Goering, also seemed in eclipse. A Daily Express dispatch from Stockholm said the German 2 people were wondering why Goer- ing, as Hitler's heir, did not read the Fuehrer's proclamation Sun- day instead of Hinmler
 The London News Chronicles Stockholm correspondent suggested 7 that Himmler and Propaganda Min ister Paul Joseph Goebbels were ' keeping Goering under closest su- pervision.