October 15: Although they are strictly forbidden to listen to foreign radio broadcasts, from my observations I would say that approximately sixty to seventy percent of all German adults do so regularly. They do not dare to listen openly. They turn the volume down to a whisper, they send their maids out to the picture show in the evening, they sit on the floors with their ears directly in front of the loud speakers. Old-fashioned headphones, which could be used for extra-private listening, were sold out in every German radio shop during the first week of the war.
