Current Events August 25, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY AUGUST 25, 1943:

Fires raged across Berlin yesterday in the wake of the German capital's heaviest raid, and even as the Nazis tightened the ring of their defenses, American daylight bombers split it open again with a! smashing attack in

the west.

Adolf Hitler placed all of Germany under the iron control of the Gestapo yesterday, naming Gestapo chief
Heinrich Himmler as the new Minister of the Interior and general plenipotentiary for Reich administration.
The drastic action came as a wave of revolt swept occupied Europe, particularly Denmark, and only a few
hoursafter the biggest RAF .raid on Berlin, for which the German capital had been preparing frantically ever since the blitz of Hamburg

A state of emergency was proclaimed in six Danish cities as police and German soldiers met increasing difficulty in subduing "the people's revolt" against German occupation.


        THE STARS AND STRIPES
       Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                New York, N.Y.—London, England Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1943

Berlin Gets 1,900 Tons in Heaviest Raid
 RAF Over Capital
50 Minutes; USAAF
Hits Foe in West
Huge Fires Burning in Berlin After Assault
Twice as Large as City Felt Before;
Big Fort Formations Over Europe
Fires raged across Berlin yesterday in the wake of the German capital's heaviest raid, and even as the Nazis tightened the ring of their defenses, American daylight bombers split it open again with a! smashing attack in
the west. U.S. bombers poured explosives down on German installations in occupied France in a day marked by possibly the heaviest air traffic across the Channel since the Battle of Britain, and Fighters and Allied planes swept constantly to the attack across the coastline.
Eight enemy fighters were destroyed without U.S. loss during operations over enemy territory yesterday. Eighth Fighter Command reported. Maj. Eugene P. Roberts, of Spokane, Wash., was credited with destroying two Mel09s. and thereby officially becomes an ace. He downed three enemy fighters on July 30,
2 ; L t - william E- Julian, of Dallas. Tex., was credited with destroying two enemy fighters. As the attack rolled on through the day and into the evening, reconnaissance pilots brought back from Berlin reports
describing the destruction left by the enormous RAF night armada which late Monday unloosed nearly 2,000 tons of destruction over Germany's first city.
The scale of what in 50 minutes became the heaviest raid yet on Hitler's capital was measured in the RAF loss—58 plane the highest number ever reported missing by British Bomber Command.
                                                               1,900 Tons on City

Gestapo Controls All Germany
Hitler Gives
Home Rule
To Himmler
SS Repel Food Riot in Denmark
Move Seen as Desperate
Attempt to Avert
Internal Collapse
Adolf Hitler placed all of Germany under the iron control of the Gestapo yesterday, naming Gestapo chief
Heinrich Himmler as the new Minister of the Interior and general plenipotentiary for Reich administration.
The drastic action came as a wave of revolt swept occupied Europe, particularly Denmark, and only a few
hours after the biggest RAF .raid on Berlin, for which the German capital had been preparing frantically ever since the blitz of Hamburg.
Allied and neutral observers expressed the belief that Hitler.'under direct impact of Allied air attacks and military defeats in Russia and Sicily, had taken a desperate step to prevent internal collapse.
Revolt had reached such proportions in Denmark that "between 40.000 and 50.000 German troops and a number of tank divisions were rushed across the border 10 occupy Copenhagen and other centers of disorder, the United Press reported from Stockholm. A state of emergency was proclaimed in the Danish
capital and five other cities as rioting and sabotage, particularly of war plants and transport lines, spread.
                                                          French Keep Gestapo Busy

Siege Laws in Denmark—
STOCKHOLM. Au«. 24 (.AP)—
A state of emergency was proclaimed in six Danish cities as police and German soldiers met increasing difficulty in subduing "the people's revolt" against German occupation.
The Stockholm press heard that during the weekend the Germans rushed tanks, armored vehicles and about 40,000 soldiers into Copenhagen. Clashes between Danish soldiers and Germans in Odense resulted in at least 50 deaths, and 20 Germans were killed at Svendborg, .reports said