DAMAGE IN BERLIN
Police Headquarters Reported Destroyed (Received February 21, 9 p.m.) 'LONDON, February 20. Information which- has filtered through the rigid German censorship regarding the recent R.A.F. raids on Berlin reveal that the foreign department of the Berlin police headquarters has been destroyed, says the Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express.” All the files relating to Jews and foreigners in Germany, which the Minister of the Interior and Gestapo chief, Herr Himmler, built up in the course of several years were lost, aud also thousands of French, Bulgarian. Hungarian and Slovakian passports. The Berlin police suffered another heavy loss when a shelter under the headquarters collapsed, burying more than 200 high officials, including some of Himmler's best men.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 5
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119DAMAGE IN BERLIN Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 5
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