BERLIN, October 29 I've been looking into what Germans are reading these dark days. Among novels the three best-sellers are: {1} Gone with the Wind, translated as Vom Winde Verweht-literally "From the Wind Blown About"; {2} Cronin's Citadel; {3} Beyond Sing the Woods, by Trygve Gulbranssen, a young Norwegian author. Note that all three novels are by foreign authors, one by an Englishman. Most sought-after non-fiction books are: {1} The Coloured Front, an anonymous study of the white-versus-Negro problem; {2} Look Up the Subject of England, a propaganda book about England; {3} Der totale Krieg, Ludendorff's famous book about the Total War-very timely now; {4} Fifty Years of Germany, by Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer and friend of Hitler; {5} So This is Poland, by von Oertzen, data on Poland, first published in 1928. Three
( William L. Shirer )
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