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Work & Wait. Along with his people, Ernst Reuter was working and waiting. In his modest home in the suburb of Zehlendorf, in the U.S. sector, he got up every morning at 7:30 and ate a modest breakfast. ("He has no time for exercise and he doesn't want to get fat," his petite, redheaded wife explained.) At 8:15, he set a black beret on his unruly grey hair, picked up his cane and went out to his official car, a black Mercedes sedan. At 8:30, he arrived at the great, grey Rathaus Schoneberg and walked...
...Student Peter Klaus had spent a comfortable winter. Now, not even the peculiar terrors of spring could faze him. Opportunity had come to him one cold day last fall: as he was beating his way homeward from Berlin University, a coal truck (from the nearby Berlin-Zehlendorf coal yards) swung sharply around a corner and six briquettes fell at Klaus's feet. He hastily tucked away his precious find, glowing with the thought of hot soup and a heated room that night. Next morning he was back at the same corner with a burlap bag. For the rest...
Advance Notice. The wives all knew that life in devastated Europe would be hard, uncomfortable, probably boring. Only Berlin seemed really equipped to handle the invasion. There, the Army expected no difficulty in providing adequate food, medical care, and comfortable homes in the relatively undamaged suburbs of Dahlem, Zehlendorf and Wannsee. Schools would be ready by next fall. Libraries, bathing beaches, riding academies were already in operation...
...afternoon about a fortnight ago, I was taking leave of a German acquaintance on Limastrasse in front of my Zehlendorf house while a spry, blond boy about three and a half feet high stood gaping at me, as his kind in Berlin will. When I had said goodbye and turned to walk toward the mess, he came up, grinned, took my hand and said, "Du sprichst doch Deutsch. Hast du kein Kaugummi für mich...
Toward the western suburbs, where the upper and middle classes live and where the Americans and British now rule, the damage diminishes. For blocks there is nothing more unsightly than a cardboard window pane, and the gardens are pretty and well tended. In the American sector of Zehlendorf a survey of the damage has been tabulated, and it is probably typical of the western part of the city. Eight percent of the buildings are untouched, 35% damaged, 49% in various degrees of destruction short of complete, 8% completely destroyed...