Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the question had peeled the blanket of official silence off a complex and dangerous problem. Almost everyone in Britain had heard at least one eyewitness story such as:
It is probable that a book modestly entitled Lettre aux Anglais (Letter to the English), of which the second French edition has just been published in Rio de Janeiro (it is not yet available in English), contains the first grand polemic produced by a Christian writer in World War II...
> Said a Russian eyewitness: "Seeing the city, the Germans, satanic with ferocity, stumble over thousands of corpses of their own men and past hundreds of smashed German tanks as they try to force into the city."
In Switzerland an eyewitness fresh from Germany told the Schweizer Bauzeitung: "Air raids have had a terrible effect. Western Germany just celebrated its 10,000th alert. Recently some towns had alerts 36 nights running. Everywhere you see destroyed houses, while factories show little damage. Factories are repaired immediately after attack...
From Reuter's Correspondent Norman Thorpe came an eyewitness account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung...