Late News BRITISH BOMBS KILL GESTAPO OFFICIALS
LONDON, Sept. 28. The Mosquitoes’ bombs killed 30 Gestapo officials in Oslo, 10 of whom died in the “cellar of torture” beneath the Gestapo building on Victoria Terrace, where political prisoners were “cross-examined,” says The Daily Express Stockholm correspondent. A bomb crashed through into the cellar before exploding and wiped the officials out. They included Obersturm Fuhrer Bemardt, 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. 1 The Germans are trying to hide the [effects of the raid. The official list of , casualties gives only seven killed and iW injured.
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Southland Times, Issue 24861, 29 September 1942, Page 5
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