R.A.F. reconnaissance last week gave evidence that bombing had cut the Ruhr's industrial output 35%. Some of the more important centers had suffered even more. More than 1,000 acres of Düsseldorf, western Germany's most important commercial city, were devastated in a single raid on June 11. Not only its factories, but administrative and engineering quarters, which serve much of the whole Ruhr sector, were destroyed. Seven days after the raid fires could still be seen smoldering.
Of the giant Krupp's 300 buildings in the Essen region, 200 were so badly damaged as to force complete shutdowns. Virtual demolition of...
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