on the 3rd march 1943, british media reported a heavy raf raid on berlin the night of 1/2 march 1943. the civil air-raid siren sound at 8.17pm, when then started a large orderly flow of people went down the stairs into bethnal green station. how-ever a middle-aged woman and a child fell down the last three steps from the bottom of the stairs which caused people to fall around them. in the end 173 people mostly women and children died due to asphyxiation.