It is very easy to say the things about Nazi Germany which are usually said—in books about that country—and if you go there you can see them for yourself. Yes, Germany is a tidy nation. The children are tidy as are the parks, streets and backyards. Slum conditions in the ordinary sense do not seem to exist and beggars and paupers are not seen. Nevertheless, some people — many people—seem to have an exceedingly poor standard of living and certain foodstuffs are undoubtedly scarce. Jack and I have covered the greater part of Germany by car, have travelled in the trains and buses in various parts and have stayed in the best hotels and the humblest pensions (a pension in Europe is about equivalent to our simplest guest-house or boarding-house). No guides have shown us just what visitors are shown. Within the limits of our meagre knowledge of German we have chatted with waiters, clerks, hotel porters, road menders, University students and anyone else we could enter into conversation with. Some of them spoke English quite well.