Word: aachen
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...Yorker last week appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...
...white flag fluttered out side the massive four-story shelter where the German commander at Aachen had holed up with his last surviving men. The surrender flag was carried by two U.S. sergeants who had been taken prisoner...
...first document produced by Wilck was unsatisfactory to the Americans: it did not contain the word "unconditional." After some hesitation, which he said was due to fear of Nazi retaliation against his family, Gerhardt Wilck drafted another: "Aachen's defending German garrison ran out of food and ammunition. I am forced to give up my command and surrender Aachen unconditionally, with all its stores, to the commanding officer of the victorious Americans...
When the U.S. flag went up over Aachen, the Allied Military Government announced that there would be no "coddling" of German civilians camping in the vicinity. They must buy their own food from local farm supplies or sign chits to the A.M.G. for stores left by the Wehrmacht. Rubble would be cleared from the streets to ease military traffic and a military telephone service restored; beyond that no Allied restoration was contemplated...
...Aachen was not only the first large German city (peacetime pop. 160,000) ever taken by U.S. troops, it was also the first formal surrender of German arms on German soil to foreign invaders since the Napoleonic Wars. Eastward, the Nazis sullenly prepared to defend Düren and Jülich on the way to Cologne...