Von Schwarz wanted to have her arrested on the spot, but the air-raid sirens sounded. In reply incendiary bombs began falling on the residential part of the town. The Allies had discovered the secret of Xeenemuende. A quarter of the inhabitants lost their lives in that first air-raid. Habicht the engineer was among them.
Some people say it was a pity.
He was a wonderful engineer, they say. One of the fathers of rocket weapons.