Dropping of the Aircraft Bomb

"When the smoke that the projectile spread had cleared, terrible cries for help and pain were heard. Some twenty people were lying on the ground with more or less serious injuries,”Berliner Börsen-Zeitung of 03/09/1919The dropping of an aircraft bomb over the Platz in 1919, was an event within the framework of the general strike in March 1919.
After the street and house fighting of the general strike in March 1919, which had lasted for several days, the residents of the adjacent streets ventured out of their houses on March 8, 1919. But the calm was deceptive: At midday, an airplane suddenly appeared over the square, approaching the Volksbühne at a height of about 100 meters. The passers-by followed the sharp maneuvers of the plane with interest and around 50 people gathered in front of the Volksbühne, looking tensely at the sky. But it was precisely over this group that the pilot of the plane dropped an aerial bomb, which detonated in the middle of the street.
The owners of the shops around the square rushed to the wounded and provided first aid until the fire brigade finally took the injured to the hospital.
So far, it has never been possible to definitively clarify who dropped the bomb. However, it is suspected that the bomb was used by Freikorps soldiers to instill fear and riots in the population around the square. 
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