Stoddard Lothrop. Into The Darkness Nazi Germany Today

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. — 214 p.All Europe is under the shadow of war. It is like an eclipse of the sun. In the warring nations the darkness is most intense, amounting to a continuous blackout. The neutral countries form a sort of twilight zone, where life is better, yet far from normal. In nature, an eclipse is a passing phenomenon; awe-inspiring but soon over. Not so with the war-hidden sun of Europe‟s civilization. Normal light and warmth do not return. Ominously, the twilight zone of neutrality becomes an ever-bleaker gray, while war‟s blackout grows more and more intense. I entered wartime Europe by way of Italy, making the trip from America on the Italian liner Rex. It was a strange voyage. This huge floating palace, the pride of Italy‟s merchant marine, carried only a handful of passengers. War‟s automatic blight on pleasure tours, plus our State Department‟s ban on ordinary passports, had dammed the travel flood to the merest trickle. So I sailed from New York on an almost empty boat. First Class on the “Rex” is a miracle of modern luxury. Yet all that splendor was lavished upon precisely twenty-five passengers including myself. Consequently we rattled around in this magnificence like tiny peas in a mammoth pod. A small group of tables in one corner of the spacious dining salon; a short row of reclining-chairs on the long vista of the promenade deck; a pathetic little cluster of seats in the vast ballroom when it was time for the movies — these were the sole evidences of community life.The Shadow
Berlin blackout
Getting on with the Job
Junketing through Germany
This detested War
Vienna and Bratislava
Iron rations
A Berlin lady goes to market
The Battle of the Land
The Labor Front
The Army of the Spade
Hitler youth
Women of the third reich
Behind the winter-help
Socialized health
In a eugenics court
I see hitler
Mid-winter Berlin
Berlin to Budapest
The party
The totalitarian state
Closed doors
Out of the Shadow