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Tango01 | 29 Jan 2020 1:11 p.m. PST |
… diary of Charles Deutmann. "Today we went to Berlin, my wife and me. The streets are cleaned up as far as possible, to restore the traffic barely. It has freed the scattered stones from mortar and built from the ruins of houses. At times you go over a carpet of dust. Alexanderplatz a huge Russian tank was shot in the street. Not far away, a German, who fought his last fight here. The town is a desolate, scary-looking pile of rubble with ghostly shapes of former houses, streets, squares and neighborhoods. Like shattered by the hand of a giant debris field of the 4 ½ million city lies in the sun, surrounded by the green ring of suburbs, not so seriously damaged . In Berlin, there is dysentery. Large strokes are calling on the people, not drink unboiled water, boil the meat, or roast. All the kitchen or other wastes buried deep…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Tacitus | 29 Jan 2020 2:03 p.m. PST |
Reads like it was translated by Google. |
Tango01 | 30 Jan 2020 1:06 p.m. PST |
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deadhead | 30 Jan 2020 3:13 p.m. PST |
This is a somewhat strange site that has often been linked here before. Just go down to the "Popular Articles on this Site"…and note a disturbing trend. |
Tango01 | 31 Jan 2020 12:06 p.m. PST |
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