“The inapparent inability of the regime to guarantee either stable prices or a regular supply of daily necessities, including food and clothing, was deeply disconcerting. According to a Gestapo report, the popular mood in the autumn of 1934 was apathetic and gloomy. Irritation with the many petty restrictions of everyday life was widespread and outright protest was not far beneath the surface. As one report commented, ‘The housewives in the markets still hold their tongues. But if one of them protests-which happens quite often-nobody contradicts her.’ According to the Potsdam Gestapo office this was symptomatic of the repressed mood of frustration. Wherever crowds gathered in the autumn of 1934- in the queues at the labour exchanges, at bus stops-there was more or less open rebellion against the regime.”
“The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy” : Adam Tooze Penguin Books 2006
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