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...burning Frankfurt, he remembers,. Garrison Soldier Helmut Lotz killed himself, wife and two children rather than disobey the order to evacuate. "He saw only one way out." In Leipzig, Knauth met a girl with whom he had played as a child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched...
...halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F. flying instructor named Ross C. ("Bill") Shepherd, who offered to fly amputation cases to the party on a free shuttle service. (He was overwhelmed with applications from veterans who wanted to go and by plain...
Damage was done by both sides. "One of the most permanently devastating raids in the entire war," say Librarians Lord and Shaffer, was the R.A.F. attack of Dec. 3, 1943 which wiped out more than nine-tenths of Leipzig's famed publishing center. Not only books (most German publishers kept vast stocks there), but irreplaceable matrices, blocks and castings were lost in flames...
Next the Russians were approached. Red Army transport men tracked the train to Magdeburg, where a German dispatcher had routed it to Leipzig instead of to Berlin. There it was unloaded and the freight warehoused...
...house is near Leipzig. We must be going the wrong...