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...From the bomb-shambles that once was Hamburg, civilian jitters spreading through the Reich-making it necessary to evacuate Berlin, sending a million homeless Germans shuffling down roads to nowhere, rousing scared German workers to strike, stirring imported foreign labor to clamor for repatriation...
...nearly as any German city has ever been in this war, Hamburg was dead last week. Its streets were twisting lanes through tumbled wreckage. A few busses crept along them, while cars equipped with loudspeakers called on the population to leave. Hamburg had no gas, no electricity, no water, little food. Money existed no longer - food, busses and trains were simply taken where they could be had and no one asked for payment. In the ruins, on the streets, in the branches of trees where bombs had blown them, lay the dead, their eyes wide open, staring...
Stockholm also reported that in bomb-shambled Hamburg demonstrators demanded an immediate end to the war and an active struggle against Hitler. Many local Gauleiter had fled; those who remained were unable to cope with the situation. Late in the week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler arrived to supervise restoration of order in the least Nazi of German cities...
That night the R.A.F. loosed the heaviest air raid in history. Upon Germany's northern port of Hamburg, 2,300 tons of bombs fell. Lost: twelve bombers, a low price to pay for the ruin reported by the Germans. London heard a Nazi broadcaster the next morning: "The view over the Alster [famed lake at Hamburg's center] was a terrible sight today. Smoke rose from all burning houses. The tower of the town hall stood in flames. Every minute delayed-action bombs exploded. The Opera House has been burned out and all world-famous entertainment places destroyed...
Next day U.S. bombers followed the R.A.F. over Hamburg, also bombed shipyards at Kiel, aircraft and other war factories in two Baltic towns near ravaged Rostock. That night the R.A.F. gave Essen its biggest raid (2,000 tons) and U.S. bombers were again awing during the following...