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...Reich capital a drizzle was falling. Berlin was dark, but alive behind its blacked-out windows. A thousand factories were humming. In ten thousand offices men and women were ending their long day's work with the minutiae of a government at war. In a million homes house wives were busy. In the dark streets, the subways and dimly lit elevated trains, people jostled one another on their way to and from work, to restaurants, theaters and movies...
...west side of the Wilhelmstrasse only one building was undamaged : Hitler's new Reich Chancellery. Next to it Hitler's residence gaped to the sky, its roof burned...
...Foreign Office was burned, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister 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...
...failed just 20 years ago. They had been younger men then, with nothing to lose, and hope had flowed easily. Now Adolf Hitler said they could still hope: "The German people and its soldiers, who have not allowed any traitor chief to arise, are shaping the impregnability of the Reich. . . . The war will be fought fanatically to the end. . . . We can not reach America-but one state [presumably Britain] is in our reach and that we shall hold responsible...
...matter how much discussion may have gone into the formation of other portions of the Moscow Declarations, on Austria there was probably agreement from the start. Cordell Hull had long cherished the ambition to break up the Greater Reich; Stalin had long seen the need for a resurrected Austria if a Danube Federation was to do its part in stabilizing eastern Europe in a fashion satisfactory to the Soviet Union...