“MOSQUITO’S” BITE
BOMBING OF OSLO 30 GESTAPO VICTIMS HIGH OFFICERS INCLUDED (9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. The bombs of the new Mosquito aircraft killed 30 Gestapo officials in Oslo, 10 of whom died in “.the cellar of torture” beneath the Gestapo building, Victoria terrace, where political prisoners were “crossexamined,” says the Daily Express' Stockholm correspondent.
A bomb crashed through into the cellar before exploding and wiped the officials out. They included Obersturm Fuehrer Bernardt, whose cruelty has made his name infamous throughout Norway. He commanded .the expedition which savagely punished the Lofoten Islanders after the first British commando raid in 1941. Several German officers were also killed, including the first aide to the German police chief in Oslo, General Rediess. High Storm Trooper officials are still buried under .the ruins. The Germans are trying to hide the effects of the raid. The official list, of casualties gives only seven killed end 67 injured.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20901, 29 September 1942, Page 3
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