Word: spandau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the shallow, dome-shaped hill was lost in smoke and dust. Spitfires swooped in wide spirals, loosing their rockets. Gradually the quick chatter of the rebels' Breda and Spandau machine guns was subdued and the slower Greek army Brens took over. Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest. The position had been taken...
Into this political never-never land, the great and moving issues affecting Berlin's fate barely penetrated. Endless have been the battles over the seven Nazi war criminals jailed in the great red brick fortress of Spandau, in the British sector. Should butter patties be given to prisoners dangerously losing weight? Shall ex-Reichs-bank President Walther Funk's kidneys be operated on inside the prison or in a hospital outside...
...What Cheek!" Next day he stepped out to watch the war. A burst of Spandau machine-gun fire hit a wall 30 yards away. Said Sandhurst's Churchill, with disdain: "What cheek!" He went on watching...
...correspondents, killed 2,000 and damaged many important buildings, including Luftwaffe headquarters. This one was bigger. Aside from morale and Government buildings, Berlin offered important industrial targets: Europe's largest brake factory in suburban Lichtenberg, the huge concentration of iron, steel, electrical-equipment, locomotive and tank factories at Spandau, aircraft and chemical plants in other suburbs. The first Swedish reports indicated that the industrial areas felt the main weight of the raid...
...twisting through the pink-orange-white pattern of bursting anti-aircraft shells, flying through the heaviest barrage Berlin had yet thrown up. With parachute flares to light their targets, they splashed bombs on the Tempelhof railroad yards, the Moabit and Wilmersdorf power stations, an airplane-engine factory in suburban Spandau, a gas plant in Tegel. In the ruins of factories and apartment houses 25 people were killed, 60 injured, according to the Nazis...