Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...Sweden last week Staff Sergeant Benny Spring, 22, of Denver, an exchanged prisoner of war (see page 32), had a different story to tell. Benny was a gunner in a wounded Flying Fortress and had to bail out near Hamburg last July. He landed "almost in the arms" of three German soldiers, was herded with seven other Americans into a box car, trundled to Lüneburg. At a way station an angry crowd gathered, threw rocks, splashed hot coffee on the flyers, shouted "Schwein," worked up a lynching temper. The guards motioned to the prisoners to follow, started dodging...
...Boat Construction: Attacks on 13 yards, accounting for 80% of production. Hamburg (three yards) most severely, Kiel (three yards) and Vegesack all heavily damaged; Wilhelmshaven (considerably), Flensburg (lightly), Danzig (two yards), Bremen and Emden all negligibly...
...Bern heard the August bombing of Hamburg left 20,000 dead. Raging fires formed an "air chimney," sucked up the oxygen, suffocating and cremating those in shelters below...
Reconnaissance studies showed that four R.A.F. night raids, two U.S. daylight raids in July and August wrecked about nine sq. mi. (or 77%) of Hamburg, left that port a dead city...