Germans have a phrase for the millions who have been bombed out of their homes, jammed into undamaged houses--"the Fuehrer's guests."* A German lucky enough to get out of Germany told this story in Stockholm last week:

"My house near Berlin was not bombed, fortunately. After the big November raids we were busy repairing some broken windows, helping our neighbors. Then one bombed-out family moved in with us, then another. The first week it was not bad.

"Then one of the bombed-outs got influenza. Someone began sneaking food from the cupboard. Then after the mid-December raid the water supply went bad and my visitors began to smell. They may have remarked the same about me. During the same raid a brother of one of my visitors was bombed out, and came around to move into my house. The new arrivals smelled even before they arrived.

"Some of the visitors who came to see my guests were most objectionable people, who stayed late and talked much.

"But the worst occurred when the husband of the daughter of one of my bombed-out guests came home from the Eastern Front on a ten-day leave--and decided to stay. All police records of our district had been destroyed, so he was relatively safe in borrowed civilian clothes; most of the people on the street looked as though they were wearing borrowed clothes anyhow. But the house by this time had become a pandemonium of squabbling over food, bawling kids and raw nerves.

"I left."

*Best estimate of the number bombed out to date: some 7,000,000 of Germany's 60,000,000 civilians. Britons bombed out during the blitz: approximately 400,000.

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