Word: andernach
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Annie's biggest day came soon after the Remagen bridge was taken. Another Allied force had secured a bridgehead near Andernach. Between these two points, Nazi troops in the Eifel mountains had ample room for retreat. Yet because Annie hinted that there was only one way out, most of the remaining Wehrmacht marched right into an Allied ambush...
...combat command of the 11th Armored Division, ripping through a parallel corridor, roared up to the Rhine at Brohl and Andernach. They picked up a German major general, his staff and 3,300 men plus a ferry, intact. West of the Rhine they curved northward, met the First Army's southward drive, snapped the handcuffs on more than 40,000 pocketed Germans. Patton's men had Coblenz surrounded and were flattening other pockets back against the Moselle...
...Germanic Museum a collection of casts of the finest and most representative works of Rhenish sculpture from the Romanesque, the Gothic and the Renaissance periods. The collection will include among other monuments a richly ornamented portal of Treves Cathedral, the Romanesque portal of the Church of Our Lady at Andernach, choir screens from the Church of St. Maria in the capitol at Cologne, finely carved choir stalls from Xanten and Oberwesel. In fact the whole Rhineland from the Moselle to the Dutch frontier will be represented by typical works of art. At the same time the Society of Arts...
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