ABSTRACT
As GEMA’s workforce returned to their benches on the first day of 1943 many suspected that a year of privation stood before them. The war made itself noticeable to them not only from the separation or death of family and friends but also through the steadily increasing air attacks that made the war a local as well as a distant reality. Berlin shared with other cities the fate of being the recipient of more and more bombs, and the arrival of enemy aircraft brought the demand for more effective defence.
