An interesting book written in 1932 tracing the trials of a young German couple caught in the economic depression that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It affords a glimpse of the prevailing social culture and the welfare and medical services provided in Germany at the time. There are, too, hints of the political tensions preceding the election of Hitler and the Nazis in 1933, but "the Little Man" - a white collar worker - and his wife, who comes from an aggressively "Proletarian" family, but who is no ideologue, are more concerned with survival than with political ideology.