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Stockholm reports had the Wilmersdorf residential district completely flattened, the Charlottenburg shopping area knocked beyond recognition, its main shopping streets-Tauenzien Strasse, Joachimstaler Strasse and half the Kurfürstendamm-wiped out. Hit again was the Zoo railway station. Destruction to Tempelhof Air Field, said Stockholm, caused suspension of all traffic. Observers who studied smoke-hazed air reconnaissance pictures, which partially confirmed the Stockholm stories, said damage was as thorough as anything they had seen in Warsaw or Rotterdam...
...Neukolln, near the big Tempelhof airfield, workers sat in the damp cellars of the old stone houses with horror in their hearts. Their city had been bombed 58 times before, but never like this (their district was the first to be hit by the R.A.F. two years and a half ago). They did not know what was happening along Unter den Linden; they could not hear, for bombs were raining all around them too. The airport was splashed with red flame. Fire and smoke mushroomed from the big power stations southeast of the field...
...skimpy hit-&-run attack. For nearly five hours one night, raiders swarmed overhead, dodging and 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...
...dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding nights more British bombs fell, more Berliners died, as 100-lb. demolition charges tore down through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again in the southeastern quarters where lie huge Tempelhof Airport and some of Berlin's main food, fuel, raw-material supply lines. As in London, subway service was disrupted. Berlin learned about sleepless nights and haggard mornings-after-and the High Command had some tall explaining...
...bring about a coup."Piatakov and Radek joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind the Soviet Plan. Piatakov, extending his confession into what became a lecture, told of alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof Field, being supplied with a forged German passport with a Norwegian visa, flying on to Oslo; conferring with Trotsky, and getting back to Russia without exciting the Ogpu's suspicion. This may seem possible if the thoroughness of Soviet, German and Norwegian secret police methods is not known...