Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tinsel Snow on Europe. Another effective countermeasure was "Window": strips of aluminum foil tossed into the air from planes. Two ounces of it looked to enemy radar like an entire bomber. The British first used Window during the 1943 raids on Hamburg. Cried the Nazi gunners, as swarming puffs of Window spotted their radar scopes: "The planes are doubling themselves...
...biggest jolt to German morale (which was only kept from going to pieces by the Nazis' iron fist) was delivered by the R.A.F. in three "city attacks" on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. There was "some indication . . . that Hitler thought that further attacks of similar weight might force Germany...
...Example: "Even a first class military power-rugged and resilient as Germany was-cannot live long under full-scale and free exploitation of air weapons over the heart of its territory." The Germans put some industries underground. They built concrete shelters able to withstand direct hits. One shelter in Hamburg, named the "Holy Ghost," housed 60,000 people. But all such efforts were in vain...
...Hamburg, hundreds of looted bells awaited restoration to the belfries of nations with bell-like names, Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium; provided, of course, that those belfries, and their churches, still existed...
Alois Hitler, Adolf's half brother, released by the British after questioning, turned up at Hamburg's town hall to ask a favor: he wanted his name changed...