Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vermisstensuchstelle des Oberbürgermeisters der Stadt Kassel Description An account of the resource 100 items. Translations of statements held by Stadtarchiv Kassel recorded by the Vermisstensuchstelle des Oberbürgermeisters der Stadt Kassel about the bombing of Kassel 22/23 October 1943. The collection was catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-06-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Transcribed document A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Transcription Text transcribed from audio recording or document Translated from the original in German: Present is the station sergeant Karl E., formerly of Moltkestraße 8, and makes the following statement: The afternoon of 22 October I happened to be off-duty. If there was an alarm or a visible raid, we had to come to the station house. When the alarm started, I went immediately, took in the situation and got as far as Mauerstraße. Then I could see the Christmas trees in the sky. My wife had stayed at home. I thought I could make it to the station house but only got as far as Schillerstraße 7. Then the first bombs started dropping. Half a minute had passed. I took cover there. There was a dreadful commotion in the house. Then I went through the breakthrough to no 9 but opposite is the butcher’s Jacob, no 14. Heavy incendiaries had dropped on that and the house was ablaze. I calmed down the people there as best as I could. The shocks were massive. The people were so frightened, they nearly tore my tunic off. I said as soon as the raid is over and the firestorm starts, we’ll have to look for escape routes, as I had been trained in these matters. Then I got as far as Schillerstraße 29 or 31, the Trieschmann bakery, the house was still in fairly good condition. I went into the yard there, where the flames came in from the houses on the sides. We started firefighting anyway and I helped, the house is still there. I got a wound on my arm, the tunic was full of blood. From there a searched for a way out. I met a captain from the artillery who did not know his way around. We wanted to get up Schillerstraße but Schwaab’s lumberyard was ablaze. There was no getting through on that street. So he came back and I thought that Orleansstraße was our only escape route, although my eyesight was getting worse through the smoke. From there I stopped in the house to the right of Wenderoth and took some civilians with me. Here the rubble was already several feet high. A woman was in a house who could not walk, I had her collected later by a car from the station. Then I told people to hurry but not to run so that they would not fall because there were so many lumps of fire. Those who fell hardly got up again. So we went to the train station in the lower town. I then reported to my police station. Our commanding officer, first lieutenant Koch, sent me to the terminal of tramline 1 at Holländische Straße. We were to show the way to a regiment of firefighters. But the chief of the fire brigade was already there and took command. I returned to my station towards six in the morning after I had tried unsuccessfully to reach my wife in Moltkestraße. The following morning half of the house had collapsed but the people living there could not be found. The cellars were on fire because in our house, we had about 500 hundredweight of coal bunkered there. An incendiary had dropped through a hole into a pile of briquettes and because of that, everything was set on fire. Of the people in the house we only found unrecognisable parts of bodies. My wife is missing without a trace. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karl E Description An account of the resource Police Sergeant Karl E's account of the events at Police Station no 4 (Reuterstraße 12) and Moltke-straße 8. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available IBCC Digital Archive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944-03-13 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Harry Ziegler Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal. Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Record 25 BKasselVdObmv10025 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Civilian Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Germany Germany--Kassel Temporal Coverage Temporal characteristics of the resource. 1943-10-22 1943-10-23 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vermisstensuchstelle des Oberbürgermeisters der Stadt Kassel bombing bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943) civil defence fear firefighting home front incendiary device shelter target indicator