Walpurgisstrasse

  • January 16, Tuesday, After eight in the evening – Hurrah, we’re still alive! Dresden had a heavy raid for the third time. The alert sounded at 11:30 a.m. I calmly went on reading […]. At twelve the siren sounded again, I thought for the all clear, but it howled a full-scale warning. Slowly down to the almost-empty cellar. Then others came: The radio reported formations approaching, 30 miles, 20 miles away. I stood at the cellar entrance with Werner Lang and Neumark. I guessed Eva to be at Maxe, the Berlin cafeteria in Walpurgisstrasse, or at Gertrud Schmidt’s in Winckelmannstrasse. We heard approaching aircraft, a series of detonations, single explosions, not the double bang of the guns. **p393
Walpurgisstrasse 18
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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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