Word: dortmund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blacked-out cities of Germany he played forbidden jazz to nerve-racked citizens of the Third Reich, who wanted hot music to jar them out of their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told this story to Correspondent Sten Hedman of the Toronto...
...People in Dortmund had no correct information about the damage done by the floods, but they were convinced that the effects were catastrophic. They talked every day about the destruction of the dams, and the comment was more bitter than that on other bombings. The attack on water-distributing facilities was called 'unworthy warring...
...Dortmund lay there as if in bright moonlight. Suddenly I was aware of the cause. From Allied planes, light bombs fell slowly. Incendiaries in much greater numbers than in the first raid poured down. Many houses were already burning. Now & then air mines exploded...
...first months, Germany in 1943 will get several times 1942's 37,000 tons. In February, March and April the R.A.F. dropped an average of at least 10,000 tons of bombs on German objectives each month. In the last week of May, in four raids on Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal, the R.A.F. dropped about 6,500 tons. Said Sir Arthur after Dortmund got its packet of 2,000 tons: "In 1939 Göring promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach the Ruhr. Congratulations on having delivered the first 100,000 tons...
...heavy bombers, grounded for several days, returned to the punishing round-the-clock schedule at week's end. In a raid unparalleled in its force they beat down the Ruhr's defenses and loosed 2,000 tons of bombs over the rail and water transport center of Dortmund, already heavily damaged in previous raids. With such attacks the weight of bombs dropped on Germany was soaring to astronomical figures: after Dortmund, the R.A.F. figured that its Bomber Command had reached the 100,000-ton mark. German retaliation to the air war was, by comparison, infinitesimal-nuisance raids...