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When he was 15, Germany went to war. Big for his age, slow-spoken, a heavy-set boy with a flair for mechanics, William Sebold went too; before he was 19 he was a machine-gunner on the Western Front. When the Ruhr was swept by the Revolution, William Sebold lived through it. Later, like many another German of his generation, he went to sea. For years he lived the rootless, lonely, self-contained life of the post-war wanderers, never quite able to master the language of the people he lived with, never quite at home among them...
Hitler and his aides had thought it unthinkable that Germany should ever be scarred by enemy attack. Hermann Göring promised on Aug. 9, 1939: "As Reich Minister for Air, I have convinced myself personally of the measures taken to protect the Ruhr against air attack. In future I will look after every battery, for we will not expose the Ruhr to a single bomb dropped by enemy aircraft." Every night last week 80 tons of bombs were dropped on the Ruhr...
Furthermore, the offensive was expensive. The London Daily Mail recently estimated the cost of a single night raid of 300 bombers over the Ruhr as follows: gasoline and oil, $13,280; losses, allowing three planes shot down, $240,000; bombs, $720,000; maintenance on planes, $210,000 Total...
Underlining Sir Archibald's words, and making the Germans go in their cellars to think about the Lend-Lease Act, the R. A. F. proceeded to send out new equipment for raids it termed "heaviest yet"-on Berlin for the first time in 82 days, Hamburg, Cologne, the Ruhr, Kiel, Bremen. This week the Germans admitted that the North German Lloyd Liner Bremen was being consumed by a "fire of undetermined origin." The R. A. F. thought it knew...
Last week a special Federal grand jury identified him in no uncertain terms. He was Dr. Manfred Zapp, 38, alias Hermann Nille, alias Otto W. Hermann, son of a Ruhr steel tycoon, head of the German Transocean News Service, and No. 1 Nazi propagandist for the U. S. and Latin America. After a five-month study of his activities by FBI, a Federal grand jury in Washington, D. C. indicted him and his chief aide, Günther Tonn. (The Dies Committee picked up his trail seven months...