Word: duisburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruhr's third successive week of strikes for more food, there were no banners, no picket lines, no disorders. At Duisburg, Mülheim and Dinslaken, 50,000 workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
...Duisburg, the great inland port at the confluence of Rhine and Ruhr, had lost a third of its workers to hunger, disease and fatigue. A correspondent reported: "Four [nearby] brothels thoughtfully provided by the Nazis for [the workers'] diversion are still open, but queues are missing...
When units of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies joined hands at Lippstadt (TIME, April 9), the Germans in the Ruhr were cut off in a pocket about 200 miles around, anchored on the Rhine from Bonn to Duisburg. Trapped inside were elements of the German Fifteenth, First Parachute and Fifth Panzer Armies-120,000 to 125,000 troops...
...Allied patrol crossed the Ruhr River to parley with the German major commanding Duisburg, and called on him to surrender. He said nein. Nowhere else around the perimeter was there any visible inclination to give...
...Rhine, the Americans were speedily turning to fluid movement. After a surprise crossing, Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr.'s Third Army was on the loose (see below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army had begun to burst the seams of its beefed-up bridgehead along a 35-mile front. Front reporters flashed the magic word: breakthrough...