The Jews from Hannover on Germans, Jews, and the war:
You get food for vouchers—aber es reicht:317 each person received 0.5 kg of butter, 0.5 kg of margarine, and 125 g of lard every month. The Jews get the same rations as the Germans, but without bonus products such as fruit, chocolate, or coffee. The Jews even get Zusatzlebensmittelkarte für Schwerarbeitende,318 entitling them to 0.125 kg of fat and 2 kg of bread per week. You do not need vouchers to buy potatoes in Hannover. Prices of other goods: a pair of high boots costs 70 Reichsmark on the free market. You can usually buy everything without vouchers, but the prices are almost as high as here.
All Jews work in factories as manual labourers. They are usually treated rather well. In general, Die Bevölkerung ist doch ganz nett.319 They have many friends among the Germans. They say that there were quite many antisemites when H. was rising to power, but their number is decreasing. Nowadays only the official institutions are antisemitic. The Jews wear bands, but they do not feel particularly embarrassed.
There are still 40,000 Jews in Berlin. They work in arms factories and in other plants. 15,000 Jews work at Siemens and every major plant employs a few hundred Jews. Jews continue to live in all districts of Berlin. Their removal from their flats started only recently. They are being placed in the Jewish district, which is open, obviously.
Those deported have been selected at random. There are idiots and old people among them as well as people such as Mr Münchhausen, Evangelische.320 Even though his family converted two generations back, he is racially 75 percent Jewish. He was a captain of the Kriminal–Polizei321 in Berlin until 1939
