Berlin crouched, waiting the attack which had long been promised. In darkened restaurants along the Kurfürstendamm, Berliners listened to the stories and dreadful rumors from Hamburg200,000 dead, the tunnel under the Elbe River cracked open, and 18,000 drowned; Hamburg all but obliterated. The cautious camped near the Zoo against emergency bunkers, slept in air-raid shelters. The terrified left the city for its safer fringes.
Near midnight one night last week the British struck.
Berlin's searchlights shivered across the sky. The Luftwaffe's fighters rose in swarms. Some 700 raiders rumbled across the city, raining incendiaries, dropping a hail of bombs. Berlin officials who...
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