FATE OF KREFELD
SPECTACLE OF DESTRUCTION AND IMMENSE DEVASTATION. BITTER GERMAN LAMENTS. 1 (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 22. Forty-three British (not 34 as earlier reported) are missing from the raid on Krefeld on Monday night. Describing the scene at Krefeld after the raid, a Berlin radio reporter said: “Whoever has seen the hospitals here has seen the exact equivalent of a casualty clearing station in the front line. The people of Krefeld think bitterly of their beautiful parks, clean streets and neat houses, most of which have fallen victims to the enemy’s terror.” It was, he said, a spectacle of destruction and immense devastation, and was like some grisly panorama in a theatre. Delayed-action bombs which had been mistaken for duds had caused much damage, and thousands of people had already streamed out of the city. Today’s Berlin communique says that heavy damage was done in the Krefeld raid, and the residential areas suffered most severely. Numerous blocks of buildings were destroyed, and civilian casualties were caused.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1943, Page 3
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