Word: grunewald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the statesmen gathered at Potsdam last July to settle the future of Germany, the sky was blue, the land was bright under a warm summer sun. Last week, powdery snow whirled down into Berlin's pocked streets, and onto Berlin's Grunewald, where the trees had been cut down for firewood and even the stumps were now being pulled out. Thousands of shivering, tired Germans lugged their bundles of wood to cold, bombed houses. Hospitals were crowded. Because the patients were undernourished, many died...
...Army had told city officials to get the people out rounding up wood to heat their homes this winter. Berlin's Oberbürgermeister dallied, spoke of combining wood-gathering with regular forest thinning. Last week U.S. soldiers rounded up laborers in Berlin, packed them off to Grunewald. There they were given saws and axes, told to get busy. They...
...Nine years ago," he writes, "I was sitting in my house in the Grunewald in Berlin. I had my books around me. . . . I was content. I had not the remotest idea of ever moving from that house. Six years ago I was sitting in my tranquil, white-stuccoed house in Sanary, in the south of France. I had my books around me. ... I was content. I had not the remotest idea of ever moving from that house...
Over not only the Black Forest, but also the bosky Harz Mountains, the Grunewald near Berlin, woods in Thuringia, ranged bombers heavy with incendiaries. The crews could not be certain of exact objectives, but peppered certain marked areas with "nice little patches of fire." At least one crew knew it was near an objective, for Germans paid it the compliment of aiming Archies at its plane. Said the pilot: "You wouldn't normally expect a lot of guns to be cracking off at you from the middle of a forest...