War Diaries (January 5) (nonfiction)
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George Beck: January 5, 1944
The German news isn’t so good but information, which we get from other sources, is great. The Russians are well into Poland and are only eighty kilometres from the German Front. They’re doing marvellous, and the Germans are sweating on the second front, which they know must come sooner than later. Roll on. Berlin had such a heavy bombing by our air force that it burned for a week. The zoo suffered also wild animals ran amok killing civilians. An elephant was not killed but wounded by a bad shot from the police and it went mad killing people.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)