Word: pankow
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...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...
...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...
...Eleanor Root, New YorkAndrew W. Welch, Jr. Barbara Kelly, EmmanuelWELD HALLHenry Applebach Louise StuartElibu H. Berman Muriel Goldman, Hartford, Conn.Frederic H. Bird Ann Tyrrell, Colby Junior CollegeJerry M. Brown Vurginia Buchser, Fort Monroe, Va.Richard L. Davies Barbara Jane Cook, WellesleyThomas M. Griffin Ann Roberts, Concord AcademyGrover C. Hansen Jeanne Pankow, WellesleyJames B. Hathaway Caroll Jenkinson, Pine ManorFrancis A. Houston, II Kay Sawtell, BeaverClifton Howard Elaine Fritz, RadcliffeJoseph A. King, Jr. Norma Rioux, AttleboroRussell F. Locke, Jr. Cynthia Bishop, RadcliffeMerton R. Nachman Nancy Day, WellesleyAlbert Reeves Edith Clifford, EndicottRichard G. Robinson Peggy Heller, New York, N. Y.Alan C. Tindal Barbara Brackett...
...seemed to take a turn for the worse. There was no great cheering crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess openly talked of the chance of war, roared that if it comes, "it will be terrible." In the Pankow District School some children heard the howl of a siren, remembered their air raid instructions, filed rapidly out. But it was only a factory whistle down the street...