10The view is occasionally expressed that, after January 30, 1933, the day of Hitler’s seizure of power, some kind of economic miracle took place. However, as far as our family is concerned, I cannot affirm this. The fact of my brother’s having joined the Storm Troopers availed us nothing (variation of the Rosary line: “Thou who hast joined the Storm Troopers for our sakes in vain”). We were worse off than before 1933, and that can’t have been due entirely to “political unreliability.” My father had many well-disposed, old friends in government positions. Nevertheless, our most time-consuming and laborious occupation continued to be: opening up new credit for groceries or paying off old accounts so we could buy on credit again, and then the never-ending burden of: the rent.To this day I don’t know what we lived on. How? To say we lived “from hand to mouth” would be euphemistic. There is no doubt—and I suggest the political economists cudgel their brains before they shake their heads—that we lived beyond and below our means.
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