German Home Front

Life in W.W. II Germany
(Collier’s, 1943)

This Collier’s article clearly illustrated the gloom that hung over the German home front of 1943:

Nobody escapes war service in Germany. Children serve in air-raid squads; women work very hard…The black market flourishes everywhere. More fats are required, as are fruits and vegetables, for the people’s strength is declining. A report I have seen of Health Minister Conti shows that the mortality rate for some diseases rose 49 percent in 1941 – 1942.

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– When the Home Front Became the Front Itself
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

Berliners with an ear cocked to the cold east wind could hear the drums of doom: The heavy roll of Russian artillery along the Oder River. By night, flares from Soviet planes bombing the Berlin-Frankfurt highway lit up the eastern horizon.

The Last Three Months
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

From inside Germany last week emerged the picture of a state that by all normal standards was in the last stages of dissolution… All signs indicated a physical breakdown perhaps as great as that of France in 1940… Refugees, mostly women and children with blankets around their bodies and shawls on their heads to protect them from the sub-zero weather, queue up for hours outside bakeries to get a loaf of bread. Draftees ride tanks in never-ending columns.

What Were the Germans Thinking?
(Click Magazine, 1943)

We cannot conduct a Gallup poll in Germany, but we can find out by other opinion polls and from other inquiring reporters what the average German is thinking. Our reporters are the Nazis themselves. The poll is tallied daily at short-wave listening stations, among them that of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The C.B.S. corps of engineers monitors and records and interprets the voices of the enemy.

The Nazi propaganda here analyzed is a record of Nazi failure to keep the German people from thinking ‘non-German’ thoughts and failure to prevent the record from being known.

This article is illustrated with fourteen W.W. II photographs.

Life in W.W. II Germany(Collier’s, 1943)

– When the Home Front Became the Front Itself(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

The Last Three Months(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

What Were the Germans Thinking?(Click Magazine, 1943)

Life in W.W. II Germany
(Collier’s, 1943)

– When the Home Front Became the Front Itself
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

The Last Three Months
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

What Were the Germans Thinking?
(Click Magazine, 1943)