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One Thousand Year Reich, about which the Nazis had
preached for twelve years, was an illusion and
nothing more.
A walk around Lübeck showed that this town was
much less damaged than Hamburg. Yet the old
Hanseatic town was dreary to look at. The bunker in the
center of the town was something frightful. Bunkers
are not necessarily built like cellars, deep
underground. Some are five or more stories high. In that
case they look like the very awkward and primitive
buildings surviving from the middle ages, when
architecture was in an early stage of development.
Bunkers were built during the war after the ordinary
bombshelters under houses had proved unsafe. They
were constructed of concrete many feet thick and
proved almost indestructible. In any case, they are
still standing and are now used for other purposes.
A bunker is not an idyllic spot during an air raid.
Nor is it one when filled with refugees from the
eastern parts of Germany. The outstanding
characteristic of a bunker is that it has no windows. It
therefore is very dark inside. No daylight can enter and
there is great scarcity of electric bulbs. Moreover, it
is also very cold, and unusually damp. We visited
such a bunker that Sunday afternoon in Lübeck and
found there refugees from eastern Prussia.
We were met by a strong and imposing chorus of
psalms. On the ground floor, a service was being held
which was attended by a great many people. Perhaps
this was an indication of the religious awakening,
which, according to many witnesses, has taken place
in the regions annexed by the Russians; an
expression of the enormously important rôle which religion
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