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When they came down, they shook the earth and the walls trembled. Along Unter den Linden fountains of flame exploded. The Hedwigsdom, Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral, collapsed. Up near the Brandenburg Gate and along the Wilhelmstrasse incendiaries sprinkled the governmental quarter, where the Foreign Office, the Reich President's palace and Hitler's huge Chancellery stand in a row. This was Berlin's heart and the administrative center of the Third Reich. Here the attackers' blockbuster bombs created havoc, and there were many Berliners who never saw daylight again...
...hear that the United States should and must attack if it wants to defeat Nazi Germany. The idea is eminently sound, but it is not new. Every isolationist in the country before December 7 loudly pointed out that Hitler could not be defeated until American boys marched down Unter den Linden, and since that time cartoonists and editorial writers in every major paper in the country with the exception of the Chicago Tribune have pounded on the theme of attack...
...first time since Russia launched its great counteroffensive on the central front on Dec. 6, Allied sympathizers last week were hauled up short by two strong hints that many more men must be lost and many more miles covered before victorious Red Armies parade along Unter den Linden and the Wilhelmstrasse. As a matter of cold fact, Adolf Hitler's retreating Armies were chins-up on at least two fronts...
...Molotov chandeliers, which ripple down in long ribbons of fire. From all directions the planes began to dive-bomb, lower than usual, and more than usual. This, the citizenry suddenly realized, was a return visit for the big fire raid the R.A.F. had bestowed on Berlin's Unter den Linden the week before; this would...
...Churchill was certainly conscious of the scene's aptness. This was a week in which all Britain was holding its breath. It was a week in which, to assuage the public thirst for revenge, the Government and R.A.F. had sanctioned a furious incendiary raid on Berlin, along whose Unter den Linden proud establishments like the State Opera and Prussian State Library were fired. It was a week in which the Germans began to talk again, loudly and confidently, of invading the British Isles. It was also a week in which Coventry had been blasted "worse than Coventry...