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in an article with the above title appearing recently in the Sueddeutsch Zeitung and quoted, as given below, in a detachment report.

"He was not always nice, good old Uncle Doc. Half a year ago he was unapproachable and bitter as gall when someone asked him for a medical attestation which would free a man from service in the Volkssturm, or when he had to give his opinion as to the state of health of the slave-workers in an ammunition factory. In those days it was easier to obtain a death-certificate from the coroner than the liberation medical attestation from Uncle Doc. Not to speak of cases when Uncle Doc wore the grey tunic of a staff surgeon!

"How much nicer is Uncle Doc today! And how bad as public health become all of a sudden! A veritable epidemic has broken out and is spreading like wildfire. What is strange about it is that only former party members seem to be the victims. Men who, just a few months ago, walked about in their

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brown uniforms radiating strength and energy, are suddenly suffering from heart diseases, liver diseases, nervous diseases, all sorts of diseases that make a man unfit to do manual labor. The disease in question is always such that the man is still fit to smoke big cigars, from apparently inexhaustible stores, to drink light beer with his friends, and to spread rumors.

"The fact is that the Arbeitsämter are helpless. They do not know what to do about it. How can they make all those ill, suffering party members work for the benefit of the community? For the food offices it is easier. The party members offer no difficulties in accepthing ration stamps.

"Much more could be saved, before the winter, many a house could be repaired if there were enough laborers. Good old Uncle Doc has become too complaisant, he issues too mny attestations; else, there would be enough laborers.

"We think it is about time that somebody checked up on Uncle Doc."