Word: zehlendorf
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...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...
...took over its section of occupied Berlin, death-ridden capital of a dead empire, last week. Along a road marked off by the Red Army, a column of 4,000 U.S. vehicles rolled toward the shattered city. As the Americans crossed into suburban Zehlendorf, a dismal rain fell. Cried some gaunt Berliners : "Gott sei dank - Thank God!" Others stood silent and sullen...