German occupied Europe is every day becoming more and more of a problem to Hitler. The peoples which have been overrun and systematically looted by the Nazis have been stirred out of passive resistance into the beginnings of active opposition which the Nazis have been unable to control Symptoms of this opposition are to be found in the growing number of cases of sabotage and murder which are being reported. The Germans doubtless expected a certain amount of this kind of thing, which is inevitable in every country occupied by hostile armies. But it is usual in similar circumstances for news of sabotage and murder to be as ruthlessly censored as the saboteurs and killers are treated when they are caught. Especially is this the case insofar as the Nazis are concerned, since they have been attempting to hold out as an inducement to the world which is still against them, a "new order" in which individual and national worries are to be replaced by security and plenty, at the cost of Nazis overlordship. It is therefore doubly worth their while to ensure that news of opposition to their "new order" should not leak out; they should be painting a picture of happy households expanding under a benevolent government. It may reasonably be supposed that the Nazis would never have allowed so much news of the troubles they are "xperiencing to have reached the world if the situation had not been in danger of getting out of hand. That this is the case is supported by the extremely drastic punishments they have threatened and carried out—punishments on a par with their mentality, such as the shooting of hostages in retaliation for the death or wounding of any German. In addition to fighting against the Russians in the east and suffering heavy raids from the R.A.F. in the west—to say nothing of enormous shipping losses inflicted by the RAF, and the Royal Navy—Hitler has now to fight on a third front, which should tax even the ingenuity of his Gestapo, sines the war on this front will be beneath the surface. His secr: t police will be confronted with a secret organization as efficient, if not more so, as itself, and backed by the almost unanimous sentiments of the people among which it is operating. Of a different type is the trouble Hitler is experiencing in the Balkans. In Yugoslavia and in parts of Greece bands of guerillas are operating openly from moun: Strongholds, arming themselves and feeding themselves from German stores. In Croatia the Italians have had to intervene in order to restore order. In Bulgaria, the government has refused to fight the Russians, though it has been forced to give obedience to all other orders from Hitler. In Rumania there is growing antagonism to the Nazis, fed by the streams of wounded returning from the Odessa front, after fighting in a war which has no real interest for, the Rumanians. Rumania and Hungary, instead of behaving like good little allies, are bickering among themselves. Norway, despite the mos: rigorous repression, is in a ferment of subterranean rebellion. The Baltic states, instead of welcoming the Nazis as deliverers, have shown that they prefer the domination of the Soviets to the tyranny of the Nazis. Poland is a chronic sore which Hitler cannot heal. The sum total is this: Hitler hoped for a unified and consolidated Europe, submissive under the rule of his so-called super-race, but has got instead a continent on the verge of a disastrous explosion.
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