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whom I talked with said to us: ”It was insane. The
enemy advanced just as fast anyhow.”
After we received permission for the Swedish Red
Cross detachment to work in the American and
British Zones, it occurred to me that we should also
try to arrange with French Headquarters for
permission for the detachment to operate in the French
Zone. With impressive American efficiency, a plane
was put at our disposal for the journey to
Baden-Baden, and we also had permission to continue from
there to Munich in order to find out if there were
Swedes there who wanted to avail themselves of the
opportunity to return to Sweden. Unfortunately, the
air field where we were supposed to land in the
neighborhood of Baden-Baden proved to be unusable.
We continued directly to Munich.
This city was very heavily damaged by bombs,
especially the center where the cathedral is completely
gutted. The Brown House was damaged, but not
destroyed, the Pinakotek had received a direct hit.
We contacted the former Swedish Consul General,
Mr. Schniewind, and after arranging with him a
number of technical details, we returned to
Frankturt.
The kind Americans provided us again with a
plane for the trip to Berlin, and early the next day
we left Frankfurt. When we approached Berlin, it
seemed to us that the traffic on the roads was almost
nil. Seen from the air, the city made the same
impression as during the last months of the war. For
the first time I saw that the center of Potsdam was
heavily damaged. The Palace of Sans-Souci escaped,
however. The view from the air strengthened the
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