Word: autobahns
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...Soviets do their skinning? Simple. You turn back 27 freight trains loaded with coal for Berlin factories, because the "cars are defective." You halt passenger traffic because "the stations are congested." Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...
...four-lane concrete Autobahn roughly paralleling the railway, a new control point for all vehicles would be set up at Nowawes, on the outskirts of Berlin...
Potato Seekers. On the Autobahn at the edge of Berlin, a young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade...
...evening falls, the potato seekers drift back to the Autobahn. Some have full knapsacks; others are emptyhanded. A father and three daughters wave down a passing American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer...
...Ninth Army tanks were on the Autobahn to Berlin, only 128 miles away...