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...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...Kassel, Germany, Harvardman Henry Martyn Noel Jr., 24, disclosed that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship and become a "citizen of the world." He was living over a pigsty, working as a bricklayer for a German construction company. Said he: "Now that I am no longer allied with [national interests] ... I feel I can come closer to the true spirit...
...wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...
...wish to call your attention to the fact that the portrait of Archimedes (TIME, July 22) is not a portrait of Archimedes but a well-known painting by Rembrandt, called The Architect, No. 224 in the catalogue of 1888 of the Staatl. Gemäldegalerie at Kassel, Hesse, Germany...
...Kassel and Nürnberg, Provost Marshal officers admitted the suicides of two German women in the apartments of U.S. officers...