Show paints horrors of berlin ruins graphic Acon acco aconis ants ls given of widespread Deru de duct ct on in german capital MOSCOW ruins craters smashed streets street cars car on their sides fresh graves german bodies still not buried throngs of gloomy starving inhabitants such is the graphic picture of conquered berlin given by russian and united press war correspondents Wilhelm strasse the street which was lined by government buildings was piled high with surrendered german arms and down it were moving columns of german prisoners one cant walk or ride on unter den linden they added nine rows of fallen trees were placed across it at one place with sand bags stacked behind them through this we saw red flags flying from the soviet and french embassies dispatches said the reichstag still was smoking with the roofs of the halls caved in but the skeleton of the cupola still standing and atop it the red banner the academy of art near the embassies was reported damaged 1 I saw an old german digging in ia ruins said an correspondent and asked what he was looking for my family he replied fairly soon 10 persons came crawling from the ruins looting rampant the russian reporters said registration of civilians had commenced in berlin and russian experts were working night and day td get gas water light and communication services working soviet specialists were being landed at tempelhof airdrome to push repairs mines and delayed action bombs still exploded looting was rampant there was no way of telling what the population of berlin was at the moment but unofficial estimates put it at not much under for the metropolitan area the united press gives an even more horrifying picture of conditions as their correspondents found them from the fashionable damm in the west to the alexander platz and frankfurter ahee in the east a distance of perhaps four and a half miles and the same distance from north to south the city is an eerie echoing waste of ruins and bomb craters and burned out skeletons of buildings often whole areas are blocked by enormous bomb craters in the streets or piles of debris which the bulldozers have not yet had time to puth push aside asid eSome csome buildings are still blazing but no one makes any attempt to put out the fires it be done anyhow because there are no water mains working chancellery wrecked hillers Hit lers new chancellery completed in 1939 by which the nazi leader thought to perpetuate himself for all time in concrete and yellow stucco and marble is something that should be seen by millions of Nazi doms former slaves throughout europe if any building in berlin was to be completely bombproof hilter hiller intended it should be his ch chancellery ancelle ry chehad he had it built with a roof of c concrete on 9 feet thick and under unde i r the whole building was an air raid shelter supposedly able to withstand the heaviest bomb any plane ca could aid drop that was just another of bf hillers Hit lers dreams A blockbuster from an american flying fortress hit the I 1 chancellery fairly and squarely early this year sm smashing as hing a yawn yawning ing hole through the 9 feet of bombproof concrete tearing through it the building itself and right down pinto the air raid cellar below blasting open a crater 20 feet deep and large enough to hold i a bus dozens of well known thoroughfares including the entire unter den linden from one end to the other are wrecked beyond repair |