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...Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
...Channel last week. The 5,450-ton British cruiser Charybdis was sunk by torpedoes and H.M. destroyer Limbourne, also torpedoed, was later abandoned and sunk by the British. The Germans seemingly got away scot-free in the first major naval engagement in the Channel since the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen fled from Brest past Dover's white cliffs...
Still afloat but of questionable value as fighting ships are the battleship Gneisenau, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and the Admiral Hipper. Repeatedly damaged by torpedo and air attacks, these four are presumably under repair...
...Hungarian Pester Lloyd on a trip through Thrace reported last week that the frontier area was speckled with innumerable, brand-new bunkers. Minsker Zeitung, a German paper in Occupied Russia, featured stories about mighty new fortifications on the Aegean islands, including Crete. In Yugoslavia, the SS division Prinz Eugen was last week winding up a month's campaign in which it claimed to have recovered half of the Partisan-freed territory, including the capital, Bihac. The south of France was being additionally fortified...
...Trondheim near week's end slipped the sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance pilots spotted the force, beep-beeped frantically on their radios for help. They got it quickly. From Britain a heavy air striking force -Beaufighters, Blenheims, Hudsons and Beaufort torpedo carriers-swept out across the North Sea. They found the Nazi force and piled in, while German fighters hacked at them...