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Considering the intensity of anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany during the past twelve years, the German people are showing surprisingly little rancor toward the few returning Jews. Some Jews never left Germany but were hidden away by German anti-Nazis willing to risk their lives and the lives of their families by protecting them. A few German Jews have returned from the concentration camps, in particular from Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt. With the help of the new German administrations, which are staffed largely by anti-Nazis, a Jew returning to his home community or coming out of hiding is usually able to find adequate housing. If his old residence has been destroyed, the apartment of a former Nazi Party member is placed at his disposal.

The article discusses Nazi propaganda. Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels is not rated so great a genius as he was some months ago. Success, it has been discovered, is not so much dependent on propaganda as propaganda is on success. It is easy to keep up morale when everything is going well, but words have little effect when things are going badly; propaganda cannot make headway against the contrary winds of fact. Goebbels, when he was so much feared and admired, was 90 per cent the appendage of the great Nazi upswing and only 10 per cent its creator. The supposedly unlimited power of pure propaganda is limited after all.

This article presents a cartoon depicting the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, which include only Nazi musicians, celebrating the success of Germans at Saarland, Germany.