Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German armored-force corporal nabbed by a U.S. 1st Division patrol hastened to tell his captors that he was no ordinary prisoner. He was, in fact, a soothsayer, scion of a long line of Bavarian seers...
...least four divisions of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army wedged warily into the Bavarian Palatinate. The Seventh's week of advance was more a careful pursuit than a driving offensive. The enemy fought small-scale delaying actions (the Americans took only 2,707 prisoners during the week) as they withdrew from vulnerable points in France to their Siegfried Line of forts and forests...
...officers had been as ready to take orders from Adolf Hitler's Government as from any other. But they did demand that the orders make military, if not political, sense. The suppressed bitterness of many a disgruntled German soldier was summed up last week by 51-year-old Bavarian Lieut. General Edmund Hofmeister, sometime commander of the 41st Tank Corps. Captured by the Russians last fortnight, Hofmeister spoke...
...south Bavarian concentration camp the Gestapo had shot a thousand German officers...
...canteen, which resembled any Army Post Exchange, with shelves of U.S. cigarets, candy, peanuts, toilet articles, hung an oil painting of a sentimental reunion in the Bavarian Alps, labeled in German, "The Homecoming...