Status Updates From The Dancing Bear

Did not realize this was based on real events.

“Planes droned over day and night—Skymasters, B.E.A. liners, Dakotas, Lancasters, Tudors—and the air was noisy with their engines as they brought in more and more food and fuel to the blockaded city. Fear lent strength to the Berliners in their determination to resist the Russian campaign. They minded the new food shortage less because everyone was in the same boat…”

“Frau Altmann was upset and agitated one day at receiving a letter from her youngest sister in Breslau... This letter…told Frau Altmann that her brother-in-law had been taken away from his home for “work for the Soviet Five Year Plan,” and that she and the two children were in a pretty poor way. The brother-in-law was a scientist, apparently a very useful one to the Russians.”