Word: pankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul and Erich found Informer Knopf in a Pankow beer garden. Later an eyewitness said, "They merely asked him to step outside, were quite pleasant about it too." Next day Knopf's battered body was found in a parking...
...outer districts, tightening the pressure all around. Suddenly the Russians were everywhere in the ring of industrial districts and workers' suburbs to the north and east. The first deep piercings were among the wreckage of the rows of dark, ugly brick and stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism and Communism. Now there were SS troopers and Nazi youth fighting from flaming block to block, from the warehouses and factories...
...have to be total. Fear-crazed men fought beside the fanatics as the teeth of the clamp bit deeper by the hour. Now the Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...
...week's end Berlin could take stock of the damage; Stockholm and London in turn sifted the reports. In a great arc sweeping from the industrial electric city of Siemensstadt in the west through the heart of the city to the sprawling factories and workers' dwellings of Pankow in the northeast, nearly a third of the city lay in ruins. Fire had accounted for 90% of the damage...
...west and northeast, industrial centers had suffered heavily. Siemens stadt was aflame, the area from the center of town out toward Pankow leveled. Some 500,000 Berliners were homeless. No one was unemployed; those who found their places of work bombed out were put to work clearing the street and repairing the damage...