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Re: Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
Chapter 13 read
Chapter 13 starts with: ‘As Berlin’s dead bodies piled higher under British bombs’. It then goes on to recount a civilian, Helena Vogel, who shouted abuse to Göring on one of his tours of the city, and was interviewed by the Gestapo as a result. A quote from a resident of Wotrum, Mecklenburg. Some more ruminations over ‘Sealion’, then a quote from a woman in Hamburg. A soldat with the Luftwaffe Station Command 16/XI is quoted. Hand Ekkehard Bob is quoted, with his views on the situation, coloured, obviously, by who he was fighting for.
More writing about Sealion and the preparations for it. ‘The level of meticulous planning included the German High Command launching an exhaustive survey into the capabilities of British guerilla warfare on 7th September 1940.(WTH has this to do with the Battle of Britain!). Then the 45th Division of Infantry Regiment 134 is mentioned (has she got the terminology the wrong way around? I think she has.) with regard to training.
Over two pages of a raid on London that Peter Stahl took part in – no date. A page on the switch to attacking London in a general way. Mention of the high contact rate by RAF fighters on 15th September. Meeting of Ribbentrop and Mussolini on 19th September with the usual bluster from Ribbentrop. More general chit-chat about the German High Command’s views.
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