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...Oxford Hard-Hit...
...hard-hit Carentan, Americans got their warmest welcome. The townspeople said that the farmers round about sold to the Germans and the black market before they would sell to the local people. Many of the farmers have grown rich-again according to the townspeople. Now that the franc is pegged at 50 to the dollar (it was 250 to the dollar on the black market), they are richer than ever...
...Midwest was hard-hit. In some communities around Chicago, 30% of the people were sick...
Gauleiter Hoffman of hard-hit Westphalia took the stand last week to counteract rumors of destruction and death circulating in the Ruhr. Said he: "It is claimed, for instance, that Hans Fritsche [official radio commentator] said in a broadcast that 10% of the armament industry has been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...
Allport, himself, was in a war class that was hard-hit by the war. It was his personal observation that the men who both saw the toughest fighting and who were away the longest had the least desire to return while almost all of the one-year men were back in College after the Armistice...