RAIDS ON BERLIN

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 306, 21 September 1943, Page 5

RAIDS ON BERLIN

Eye-Witness Reports Colossal Damage

LONDON, September 19. The Swiss newspaper “Saint Gallen Tagblatt” published an eye-witness description of raid devastation in Berlin. “The last big attack on September 3,” it says, “inflicted colossal damage, particularly in the west. Streets are hardly negotiable in the Lankwitz and Lichterfelde districts. There is also great damage in the Mariendorf neighbourhood. The Templehof airfield is riddled with holes.” The article says that a number of factories and railway stations were wrecked. “There was exasperation with Storm Troopers, who did not participate in rescue w’ork, but they concentrated on taking into custody people who could not control themselves. It was nerve-shatter-ing to see women demented after the raids crying continuously for lost children or Wandering speechless through the streets with dead babies in their arms.. Women fought for seats in an evacuation train when they thought it was about to leave without them. The rush to leave Berlin is tremendous. A.R.P. workers and other security officials think more and more of their own safely.”