World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1940 October
E14 May 7, 2017
Waves of Luftwaffe planes bomb London without letup. The city is enveloped by thick clouds of smoke and flames and its inhabitants are forced to take refuge in precarious shelters with no water or electricity. Crowded hospitals are hit in the merciless bombing. The British authorities desperately try to organize a sufficiently large fire service to cover the whole city. Meanwhile, Liverpool and Manchester are also bombed.Tension increases between Britain and Japan with the announcement by the British government that the road to Burma will be opened to help supply China. Rudolf Höss, commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, begins the process of mechanized mass murder that will eventually take the lives of more than two million people.