Bill Downs Quote

People who evacuated their homes to get away from the bombings are beginning to come back. However, many have a strange conception of the meaning of unconditional surrender. Often they find their homes have been occupied by the slave workers who have been forced to withstand the bombing. They come to the military government and ask for authority to evict these people. But they get unsympathetic answers... the forced laborers stay put until they can be sent back to their homes... and the Germans look for billets.

Broadcast from Liberated Hamburg (1945)