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...subcellar of Frankfurt, five stories beneath what was once the famed Opera House, reporters found an order of Catholic nuns. For seven months they had lived like troglodytes in the dank, dark earth waiting serenely...
Village homes and farmhouses were stuffed with comforts, even luxuries. Near Frankfurt, one correspondent wonderingly noted the furnishings-paintings, silver and glassware, rich linens-then dipped into a bedroom closet: "I counted 87 dresses, three pairs of boots, 17 pairs of shoes. One whole drawer was jammed with tightly packed, unworn silk stockings...
...partial to human flesh. "Brave as lions and cunning as serpents," they are a secret group of avenging terrorists, pledged to destroy both Allied invaders and German "traitors." Already they have assassinated the Allied-appointed Mayors of Aachen and Meschede (TIME, April 9) and killed three U.S. officers in Frankfurt...
...moment there is nothing here but dullness and apathy. All the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-"Frankfurt stands firm," "Better Death than Slavery"-are nothing but a mocking epitaph...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...