THE Russian campaign brought the war home to the Ger-
man people. The casualties--dead, wounded, and missing--
had amounted to no more than 200,000 in all the other cam-
paigns. That was a small percentage of an army that included
from 4,000,000 to 6,500,000 men; and since all the other cam-
paigns had been won quickly, they had carried out the prom-
ises of the Nazi leaders that the burdens of the war would be
borne not by the German people, but by the enemy. The
Russian campaign was different.

When I first went to Germany, I saw a wounded soldier on
the street only now and then. Joe Harsch told me he estimated
that he saw few more than a dozen in Berlin before he left
there. But after the Russian campaign began, I saw them in
every block along the principal streets--young men with their
arms in slings, with an arm gone, walking with crutches and
canes, or without one of their legs. Previously, too, there had
been few women in mourning, but I began to see them every-
where.

One day I was standing by a news-stand on the Kurfürsten-
damm when a woman approached the newsdealer to ask for
change to use in the near-by telephone booth. We noticed
that she had a letter in her hand. She looked sad and worried.

"Is everything all right, Frau Müller?" asked the news-
dealer.

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