Word: mariendorf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people. Amid Berlin's debris 72 movie theaters kept open; they held high priority in air-raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...
Private Ronald Morris of London said that he saw Mariendorf after an R.A.F. night attack, and "it was a terrible mess." U.S. flyers whose route to the embarkation point lay through Augsburg, Berlin and Hamburg reported that Hamburg was "flat for miles and miles-a shambles." Eight British prisoners reported everything flattened on both sides of the railroad over a two-mile area in Frankfurt...
...Mariendorf, where the big Borsig plant turns out the stuff of war, the flak had brought down a British bomber two years before-it had fallen like a fluttering, glowing leaf into an open field. Now Mariendorf's guns spoke again. High above, the bomb bays opened and the bombs dropped, arching down with a cracking noise while the watchers on the ground ran for shelter and the plant's terrified workers covered their ears...
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