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Hitler's residence (but not the Reich Chancellery on the Wilhelmstrasse), Goebbels' home lie in ruins. Göring's offices in Prussia House were being repaired when another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
...Ukraine was Manstein's last stand. For unless this battle was won-or even stalemated-it would soon be too late. Other armies would be gnawing at Europe's western and southern crusts. If, by then, the Red Army was at or near the gates of the Reich itself, or tearing at the Nazi structure in southeast Europe, Germany's end would be very near...
...Allies' primary concern now, says Arnold, "is to make the coming invasion of Germany as economical as possible by drastically reducing the war potential of the Third Reich." Measured by results, Arnold believes A.A.F. losses have been minuscule. "It is possible that the Schweinfurt mission in which we lost 60 of our bombers may prove to have been one of the decisive air actions of the war." The Schweinfurt plants produced over 50% of Germany's ball bearings. The Regensburg raid caused a loss in production of 500 ME-109s. Cost of that raid to the Eighth Bomber...
Telling his people that no war lasts forever, Hitler reminded them that after four years of fighting the Reich had not lost "one square kilometer of soil." The year ended had been one of heavy reverses: the Russian offensive, the loss of Africa, the downfall of Il Duce, the rise of Tito; the year beginning, he grimly warned, would see the war's crisis. He said that German preparation to meet the Allied invasion had gone forward on "a scale that will probably surprise our enemies more than their landing will surprise us." The Russian front, he admitted...
...objective the Red command would love dearly to regain: Zhitomir, which Vatutin captured last November, lost to the Germans six days later. In Russian hands, Zhitomir as well as Vitebsk could well become a springboard for a jump onto the eastern ramparts of the once great Reich...