English Translation

53a -26 - 3. The salvage under the rubble cone or below the damage field. (Intrusion into buried remains of buildings) It has become known that persons are trapped or even buried in the basements of one or more collapsed houses. In the rarer cases, the single-family and smaller single-house will have collapsed on all sides in the same way both above its ground-breaking surface and at the same time all-round beyond it. If the precondition for this is fulfilled, namely a centric encounter by the bomb, the main masses are usually hurled away so far that one stands in front of the more or less compressed, often but completely uninjured cellar ceilings. The center of the ground crack area is then often almost empty. The great question of who or better how many people were buried is not so much pressing here; for it is in the nature of the single-family neighborhoods that even the other neighborhoods can give astonishingly good information about the inhabitants. The second big question, where the buried ones lie, stops at the individual house with its small debris masses with the good insight into the damage site freed from debris, with its visibility and with its few cellar rooms and walls also not very long. After overcoming dea peace-based respect for wall breakthroughs, one can quickly help with these, especially since the wall thicknesses are low, so that in the playfully slight breakthrough also little new debris arises. One achieves here often surprisingly fast and good results. The difficulties lie more in the search for hurled out of the house, which were against air protection on the ground floor and therefore only under sometimes surprisingly small debris of the edge zone outside the house are found. The single multi-family house already has so large masses that in the case of the probably not mostly centric meeting it still remains to a large extent and already the typical rubble cone of the - 27 -