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Berlin crouched, waiting the attack which had long been promised. In darkened restaurants along the Kurfürstendamm, Berliners listened to the stories and dreadful rumors from Hamburg-200,000 dead, the tunnel under the Elbe River cracked open, and 18,000 drowned; Hamburg all but obliterated. The cautious camped near the Zoo against emergency bunkers, slept in air-raid shelters. The terrified left the city for its safer fringes...
Stockholm reports had the Wilmersdorf residential district completely flattened, the Charlottenburg shopping area knocked beyond recognition, its main shopping streets-Tauenzien Strasse, Joachimstaler Strasse and half the Kurfürstendamm-wiped out. Hit again was the Zoo railway station. Destruction to Tempelhof Air Field, said Stockholm, caused suspension of all traffic. Observers who studied smoke-hazed air reconnaissance pictures, which partially confirmed the Stockholm stories, said damage was as thorough as anything they had seen in Warsaw or Rotterdam...
Correspondents in Berlin were still treated with unwonted courtesy by Nazi officials, still cabled their stories without Government interference. At the Taverne, Italian restaurant in Kurfürsten Strasse, they could sit around the newsmen's stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...
...hunters; tall, blond, mighty-muscled Nazi youths in civilian clothes, appeared suddenly on the Kurfürstendamm but seemed at first not to know quite what to do. Soon group leaders dashed up in snorting Mercédès and the Jew hunt was on, a peculiar feature being that the sidewalk crowds joined in a hunting chant taught them by the hunters. This was roared out one line at a time by the group leaders, all present then repeating in a fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead...
...several hundred midshipmen around Europe with none too happy results.* Although admiring shipmates credited small Midshipman Wood with beating up the big Nazi, getting arrested and paying a $20 fine, the German Government officially informed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd that no such arrest occurred. Police along the Kurfürstendamm took little interest in the Jew hunt. When not in full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning...