In chapter 8 Howard W. Campbell, Jr., the American Nazi propagandist, speaks to the weary, malnourished prisoners at the slaughterhouse. He solicits them to join his Free American Corps to fight on the Russian front, promising food and repatriation after the war. Edgar Derby stands up and, in his finest moment, denounces Campbell. He defends the American fight for freedom and praises the brotherhood between Russians and Americans. An air-raid siren concludes the confrontation, and everyone takes shelter in a meat locker carved into the bedrock beneath the slaughterhouse. The alarm is false. The narrator states that Dresden will not be destroyed until the next night.
I wonder what made that alarm trip and cause them to go in to a mass commotion? I personally thought maybe it wasn't the best idea to go into the meat locker because the ones I have seen Are locked form the outside and cannot be opened from the inside, This makes me wonder about how it will teach us about the thought process of panicking soldiers.
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