“WAKES US MAD'

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 319, 4 October 1940, Page 1

“WAKES US MAD'

NERVE OF ENGLISH NAZI PILOT’S COMPLAINT GAY MUSIC RESENTED REACTION TO BOMBING (News by Cable.) LONDON, Oct. 2. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain has circulated the confessions and impressions of a German pilot who bombed London homes. The pilot, who is a university graduate, when asked what it felt like to drop high-explosive bombs on a closely-crowded suburb, replied : “One must not think of one’s task in terms of humans, but must consider the purely military command we have got to carry out. “The actual discharge of a bomb brings relief from a strain that becomes almost unbearable. I mutter, ‘Thank God that’s over’ as I give the bomb release signal. We are facing death night after night. The searchlights, had us pincered and we narrowly escaped entanglement in balloon barrages and anti-aircraft fire.

“There is another factor. Letters from our families tell of nights spent in air-raid shelters and ask when this accursed war will end. Then, proceeding to London, we switch on the radio and hear the gayest of music from the British Broadcasting Corporation. It makes us mad to think that these English have the nerve to play jolly tunes as though nothing was happening “I drop my bombs and feel that the best way to end the war is to cause as much destruction as possible. I feel relaxed when I see a crater or a leap of flames.”