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...another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
...Mariendorf, where the big Borsig plant turns out the stuff of war, the flak had brought down a British bomber two years before-it had fallen like a fluttering, glowing leaf into an open field. Now Mariendorf's guns spoke again. High above, the bomb bays opened and the bombs dropped, arching down with a cracking noise while the watchers on the ground ran for shelter and the plant's terrified workers covered their ears...
Herewith TIME presents condensed versions of two extraordinary speeches made last week. Together they did much to clarify the overwhelming problem facing the U. S. One was a speech by Adolf Hitler to the workers and women of Germany, delivered beneath shiny new cannon in the Rhein-metall-Borsig munitions works. The other was dictated by the British Ambassador to the U. S., the Marquess of Lothian, from his deathbed, and was read by Embassy Counselor Nevile Butler to the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore...
Died. Ernst von Borsig, 63, famed German locomotive & machinery tycoon, senior head of once potent A. Borsig. Ltd., biggest member of the Borsig group (second biggest German one-family business*), bankrupted last year and forced to accept government aid; of heart disease; on his country estate Gross Syphen Behnitz, Brandenburg...
...assets. Junkers Aircraft assets were supposed to be nearly adequate ($5,236,000 against $3,094,000 liabilities), but frozen. A Junkers unit closely allied with the aircraft company, and like it wholly owned by famed Professor Hugo Junkers. is Motorenbau which builds airplane and other engines. Borsig Co., a licensee of Motorenbau but not a Junkers enterprise, went into bankruptcy last December. Borsig was a substantial creditor of Motorenbau and its own creditors sought to collect. Hard-pressed for cash, Junkers entered into long negotiations with the hard-pressed Reich for aid. To avoid bankruptcy last week it announced...