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...over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...Catholics thought there must be one justice for Rome and another for all other cities. ... To precisely the extent his faith is strong and informed [the Catholic] will make no distinction between the bombing of Rome and that of a miserable Calabrian village, an industrial city of the Ruhr and an English town. ... He will not say that if the church is a basement church in a modern suburb it is all right . . . but that if it is a cathedral church it is a sacrilege...
...like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...
...night raids the R.A.F. delivered some 15,000 tons of bombs to western Germany. Cologne got 2.500 tons (in two raids): Düsseldorf, Bochum and Krefeld in the Ruhr got 2,000 tons each in single raids: 1,500 tons fell on each of three other Ruhr targets. The R.A.F.'s three-month bomb total: 37,500 tons, more than three times the weight of bombs dropped on Germany in the same months last year...
Gauleiter Hoffman of hard-hit Westphalia took the stand last week to counteract rumors of destruction and death circulating in the Ruhr. Said he: "It is claimed, for instance, that Hans Fritsche [official radio commentator] said in a broadcast that 10% of the armament industry has been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...