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...cost Italy-apart from loss of her colonial empire-destruction of her towns, annihilation of her industries, of her merchant navy, of her railway network and, lastly, invasion of her own soil. One cannot ask the people to continue to fight when all legitimate hope-I do not say of victory, but even of resistance-has vanished...
...estimates, the Germans had consigned some 200,000 men in 18 divisions to Italy. The bulk of these were probably in the north, under the command of that master of delay, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. His first task: to preserve from Italian sabotage and Allied air attack the three railway, routes into upper Italy from Austria and Yugoslavia, the interior railways, roads and airdromes without which the German armies could not long be supported. Rommel's eventual task: to hold the mountains and passes of northern Italy against Allied armies at these gates to the Reich...
Stockholm reports had the Wilmersdorf residential district completely flattened, the Charlottenburg shopping area knocked beyond recognition, its main shopping streets-Tauenzien Strasse, Joachimstaler Strasse and half the Kurfürstendamm-wiped out. Hit again was the Zoo railway station. Destruction to Tempelhof Air Field, said Stockholm, caused suspension of all traffic. Observers who studied smoke-hazed air reconnaissance pictures, which partially confirmed the Stockholm stories, said damage was as thorough as anything they had seen in Warsaw or Rotterdam...
Just before Franklin Roosevelt arrived in Quebec last week, a summer rain stopped, the sun came out, and a rainbow appeared in the southern sky. To some who waited at the railway siding, this was an omen. But most of the world would wait for better evidence...
...Hardest hit are the railroad and dock areas. In the harbor a sunken liner's funnels still stick out of the water. The remains of one or two ferries clutter the slipways. Concrete piers have been cut in two. Railway cars are smashed. The scene recalls the earthquake of 1908, when 91% of Messina's buildings were destroyed and 78,000 of its residents perished...