the street cars are running. For the most part, the population of Berlin is living underground. They
have evacuated all the small children. The older children and the women are working on a 16 hour
a day schedule. All food is stringently rationed, however, on a generous basis sufficeint for the
basic requirements. Positively no item can be had which is not rationed. This applies equally to
clothing. The essential business of Berlin proceeds to functiondoggedly, however, some of the
Ministries, the Luftfahr included, have moved to Vienna. Tremendous slave labor forces, for the
most part made up of Russians and Poles, are in evidence everywhere doing safety demolition and
cleanup.These men are forced to stay out in the open during raids since there are not enough
shelters available for everyone in Berlin. During a single raid in March, it is reported that 40,000
of these Poles and russians were killed. Our informant reports that a relatively accurate and
gloomy picture is being given to the general populace about all the Theaters of War including the
Eastern Front defeats. This results in a fabulous fear of the Russians