midnight
We had not . Then he told us that the night before the German airmen had come to the hospital early in the night and had dropped their eggs -- incendiary bombs . An hour later they came and dropped some high explosives . They came again at midnight and because there were no anti-aircraft guns near by -- the allies until those August and September German raids never had dreamed that hospitals would be raided -- they came again swooping low and turned their machine guns on the doctors and the nurses in the compound who were taking the wounded out of the burning building . Then toward morning they came and dropped handbills which declared , `` If you do n't want your hospitals bombed , move them back further from the front ! '' The Germans were not acting in the heat of passion . They were fighting scientifically , even if barbarously .