English Translation

64a - 2 - Since the failure of the wire communication connections must be expected, the command transmission must be ensured by an adequate number of detectors with force or bicycles. 2.) Air protection rooms. Even in the heavy air raids on Warsaw, the cellar rooms in multi-storey residential buildings almost without exception resisted the resulting debris, although air protection rooms in the sense of the German protection space regulations were not available and even though stiffenings of the cellar ceilings, even in the most primitive form, were not carried out. The bombs detonated in residential houses with 3 or more floors mostly at the level of the ground floor. Detonation of bombs in the basement was not detected in such houses. The fact that most of the population of Warsaw was in the cellars during the air raids is due to the fact that the number of dead and injured is extremely small compared to the bombs dropped and the artillery munitions shot down. According to information provided by German and Polish authorities, the population is expected to be approximately 100 000 and the number of persons seriously injured is roughly the same. During the attacks there were about 600,000 inhabitants, including refugees. Air protection rooms on the basement floor are the safest place to stay, even in the most severe air attacks within buildings The construction and construction of air protection rooms in the basement is therefore one of the most important air protection measures. With regard to the risk of spillage of the access points, the false view can arise that air protection rooms in the basement are to be avoided because of these dangers. However, this is not the case. At least in Warsaw no cases could be found in which people have come to harm as a result of spilled accesses. On the other hand, many people have died in the rubble because they were not in the cellars but in the floors of the buildings during the air raids. Nevertheless, it is necessary in the air shelters simple tools for the removal of rubble, for the clearing of the entrances SAtnd 48819