THE DAMAGE IN MUNICH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25172, 12 March 1943, Page 3

THE DAMAGE IN MUNICH

(Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 11. The Munich raid completed the first fortnight of the R.A.F.’s round-the-clock programme. The Berlin radio admitted that fairly considerable damage was done in Munich. Three art galleries were destroyed, which, however, are all near the central railway station.

The cry of “ barbarism ” from German propagandists is increasingly piercing as the fury of the R.A.F. raids increases. German reports emphasise hits on houses, hospitals, and historic buildings. Radio commentators assert that this is the result of a deliberate terror policy. One commentator, Willi Baehr. said: “ It is a basic principle of German war methods to preserve civilian life, but the British and Americans are utterly cynical and have no word of sympathy for women and children who are killed or wounded.”

“ Had anyone before the war prophesied that such gaps would be torn in German cities we would have been terrified,” said the Berlin announcer, Hans Fritsche, “but in the war’s fourth year we have become used to a battle for dear life, and we no longer see the gaps in rows of houses.”