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apparently arbitrary and unsound petty interferences with their
everyday
activities combine to irritate them, - often to the limit of their
endurance. I feel pretty sure that this is true of many, but can
venture no opinion on about the proportions. The agricultural laborers
are said to be more favorable to the government.
 
 
 As for the industrial working class, I was given very little 
information that seemed to me trustworthy. One man seemed to think that
a 
good many former socialists, if not communists, with a docility that is
common in Germany, had accepted the present regime and come to like it.
Several others were firmly of the opinion that the working men and
their wives are merely hiding their feelings, which remain unchanged.
 
 
 It was pretty generally said that the petty bourgoisie, out of
which the Nazi party arose and in which there were originally 
high hopes of better economic conditions, has become disillusioned,
dissatisfied and hostile. I should guess that this is certainly true of
numbers that are absolutely large, but possibly not very large
relatively. Again, I have the feeling that my informants were not
particularly well qualified to form an opinion.
 
 
 The students are said to have undergone a great change. Originally 
they were overwhelmingly in favor of Hitler. I was told by a student in
one provincial university that today 90 per cent of the men students in
his
university are hostile to the government. He added that a majority of
women 
students were in favor of Hitler. The explanation of this latter
curious 
fact, given by him, corroborated by his mother and by a woman of thirty
who was also present, as well as by a professor, all of whom took part
in 
the conversation, is said to be this. Hitler is unmarried. He is,
therefore,