Parachute to Berlin
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English | April 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1636243169 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2.08 Mb
The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.
Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett’s experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.
Table of Contents
1. Assignment Over Germany
2. Parachute to Berlin
3. Unexpected Visitor
4. To Solitary Confinement
5. Questions and Answers
6. Nazidom’s Guest
7. Wartime Tourist
8. Daylight Bombing Commentary
9. Ravaged Ruhr
10. Escape
11. Slata Praha
12. Gestapo Interlude
13. Illegal Tourism
14. Chain-Letter Sabotage
15. The House That Flak Built
16. Not as Briefed
17. Pow Wow
18. May Day Liberation
19. Flight to Civilization