The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-25
BERLIN RECEIVES
SECOND BIG RAID
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most heavily bombed target in the
world.
The scale of destruction plus the
relatively low cost in bombers -
rs Monday night and 20 last night
in successive air bombardments
made it clear that the heart of
Hitlerdom must find way to
check the British bomber COM
mand with more severe losses or
face methodical obliteration.
AS evidence mounted of the vast
destruction wrought by the raids,
it was Enthusiastically clear that
wholly aside from the physical
damage to the Nazi administra-
tive offices in the center of Berlin
and to the large war industries in
the suburbs the Allied aerial drive
was the wars greatest offensive
against enemy morale.
A spokesman for the British Min
istry of Economic Warfare said
the raids had caused a sharp de-
cline in industrial production but
that there was little evidence of
defeatism although German spir-
it's were low as the result of the
two heavy attacks on Berlin.
Berlin now is the worlds most
bombed city, with a total Of $4,000
long tons having been dropped on
the city during the year. Hamburg
had a total of around 10000 tons;
Essen, HaHnnover and Cologne
around 5000 tons each and Mann
helm and Ludwigshafen over T.
600 tons.
Although the Germans clamped
strict censorship on reports of
damage, after letting floods of
stories through during the first
hours of confusion following Mon
day nights record raid, travellers
reaching Switzerland and Sweden
told of the utter chaos" in Ber-
lin, and described the city as Sin
a terrible state.''
Reports trickling out of Germany
today said that after last nights
raid trucks roamed the streets
gathering able-bodied men for first
aid work, and women and children
formed bucket lines to fight the
flames.
Apparently no section of the city
was spared; eyewitnesses told OF
the destruction of government
buildings, embassies and world-fa-
NOUS structures in the heart OF
the city to industrial plants locat-
ed in the suburbs.
Damage was reported heavy in
the zoo area and Raj planes flew
back and forth over the Tiergar-
ten, battering heavy anti-aircraft
batteries located in the park.
Among the embassies wrecked
by the Raj was that of the Unit
ed States, located on Pariser Platz
at Brandenburger Tor, which one
eyewitness said was Gin ruins"
Transportation was paralyzed as
the huge b1ock-busters wrecked
railway stations and destroyed
miles Of track.
Unofficial estimates of the cas-
ualties caused by the two raids
ran as high as $4,000 killed and
wounded. So far there has been no
official Nazj report on the casual
ties but German spokesman in a
broadcast characterized the two
attacks as the greatest ever di-
rected against Germany.
Fires still blazing from Monday
nights raid guided Raj pilots to
the city last night, and returning
fliers said they could see the
streets of Berlin plainly and that
they ''never saw fires like those
raging through the buildings lining
the thoroughfares.
Although the Monday night raid
was made during bad weather
with heavy clouds over the target,
the sky was relatively clear last
night. However, only a few Nazl
fighters came up to meet the
raiders ana BRUSH creWII1eIl Sdlo
the flax, while heavy, was not as
bad as on Mondays raid.
Reports reaching Switzerland said
Berliners complained bitterly OF
the passive defense" put up by
the Nazis.
A neutral diplomat told the cor
respondent of the Lausanne Ga
zette that the effects of the raids
on the residents of the German
capital could not yet fully be meas
ured because many still are stu
pified by the catastrophe
Berlin was practically isolated
today from the world by telephone
or telegraph, and because the city
dominated the European transpor-
tation and communications sys-
TENS the entire Hitler-d dominated
continent was affected.
Late this afternoon DNB, the
German news agency, broadcast
extracts from Berlin newspapers
| which urged the peonIe to keen IN