Postplatz

  • 1944, October 8, Sunday morning – More antiaircraft fire . . . The all clear not until half past one. No one knew what had happened. All anyone said was: Around Wettiner Strasse, Postplatz. Now I began to worry about Eva. She could very easily have been at Postplatz. (Later it turned out that she was within a hairbreadth of having to go down to a cellar there; she was still on the no. 6 tram when the pre-alert sounded.) People from the factories brought news. The tram service was not running, rails had been destroyed close to the Annenkirche, a big crater … I had to wait for Eva until five o’clock. **p366
  • 1944, October 9, Monday morning after nine o’clock – Very curious: My first frontline birthday (because during the First World War I was safely at home on every October 9). All kinds of news and rumors mounted up about the attack the day before yesterday. From the Stiihlers, the Cohns, from Eva, who had been to visit Frau Winde and gone home via Postplatz; she had seen a crater in Annenstrasse and damaged houses. There are said to be quite a large number of dead, who were laid out in Freiberger Platz (cordoned off). **p367
Postplatz 1927,
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  • ** I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Publisher ‏: ‎ Modern Library; Illustrated edition

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