Chapter 27
The next day Anna paid a visit to Mutter and Ursula. She caught one of the infrequent busses, and crossed the devastated city. Since she lived in the staff housing, she rarely left the Charité grounds and had forgotten how god-awful the situation in Berlin was.
At long last the incessant air raids had stopped, as if the Allies had decided there was nothing left worth bombing in the capital. According to the radio, the Allies were now focusing their air raids over France. Speculation had it the Allies were planning an invasion somewhere on the French Atlantic coast. Damaging infrastructure was their preparation for crippling the German defenses.
Anna had never spent much time thinking about what would happen when the war ended. Despite the constant rallying to persist, most of
