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off a` top hat he was wearing. Montgomery, who
clearly saw the humor in the situation, felt obliged
to issue an order prohibiting British Army personnel
to wear top hats with their uniforms. This little
example shows that Montgomery combines with his
great military talent and ability a capacity, through
his grand sense of humor, to emphasize amusing
highlights in the otherwise so arduous and serious
military life.
We continued our journey to the Ruhr where, for
the first time, I saw the tremendous destruction
brought by the war to German industrial cities.
Conditions in the Ruhr must be the worst in Germany,
perhaps in the whole of Europe. The leaders of the
Allied Air Forces considered it necessary to destroy
German heavy industry by bombing. The Royal Air
Force had been especially assigned to bomb the Ruhr.
Among the towns which were continual "night
targets” were Essen, Dortmund, and Duisburg,
centers of German heavy industry. Visiting these
towns today it can be certified that the Allied pilots
thoroughly executed their missions. This part of
Germany is so completely devastated that it can only hbe
compared to the central part of Berlin. The Alfred
Krupp works were, once upon a time, spread over a
large portion of Essen. This area is now a single
mass of ruins. One of the world’s largest industries
has been almost totally annihilated. The destruction
had been completed by the obliteration of the
statues which were erected in the city in honor of
Alfred Krupp, the munitions manufacturer. Only
one foundation and its inscription remains.
I had the opportunity to meet some of the leading
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