[Under the surface of Nazi Germany]

The file contains short surveys written by Paul Anderson, who was a foreign correspondent. Under the pseudonym Peter Peterson he published several reports as a political commentator. In his reports he is explaining the situation in several countries, mostly connected to the Hilter regime and its foreign policy. Or he is dirscribing, based on first hand informations, how the situation is in Germany. The reports containing in this file have been published in the 'Daily Herald' in 1935, discribing the the economic as well as interlectual and moral conditions of the German people. The main question he is asking in his reports is if people live better or worse since their fate lies in the hand of a one-man-dictatorship, or rather in the hands of a fascist party oligarchy. The unemployment rate sunk, but also the saleries did so, on the other hand the retail prices increased. As far as he figured out the economic situation got worse. And after living some time at friends' places he figured out, that in the technical sense everyone is a Nazi, as everyone had to be member of a Nazi organisation and pay fees. But under the surface are also millions of decent and often highly intelligent people who have to play the game of intellectual campounflage day in- day out. The deep desolate apathy, the tired hopelessness, the fatalism and cynicism of the people seemed to the author depressing and scary. Not hard to conclude, that the intellectual and moral conditions also got worse. But regardless of the weak tendencies of underground movements in Germany, as well as the influence of this organisations may ever be, the very sensible state apperatus of the Nazi regime reacted on every little movement by the most bestial terror, so Anderson reports. Eventhough the life under the surface of Nazi Germany were living in worse conditions, the few underground movements in 1936 had no chance to change the situation in Germany during that time.