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...says this tale of Luther's dramatic Thesenanschlag (thesis posting) is pure legend. Dr. Erwin Iserloh, Roman Catholic professor of church history at Trier, declares that Luther merely mailed off copies of his theses to two of his ecclesiastical superiors, the Bishop of Brandenburg and the Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz, and let it go at that. Iserloh points out that the writings of Luther himself never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death in 1546 by his disciple, Philipp Melanchthon...
...bridgehead was established by the 329th Infantry on April 13 at Barby. The bridgehead made at Magdeburg by the 2nd Armored Division on April 12 was knocked back by German armor. The 329th bridgehead was severely counterattacked for three days but held firm, partly because we had rafted all our antitank guns across the Elbe...
...April 12, 1945, when the Ninth Army reached the Elbe at Magdeburg, most of Hitler's army commanders were ready for surrender to the West because the whole defense system had broken down. We know this from postwar interrogations of high German civilian and military officers. This shows the error of appraisal that an American march to Berlin would cost 100,000 casualties. Of course, neither Eisenhower nor Bradley can be blamed, because they had to rely on intelligence reports. The miscalculation of the fighting power of the Nazi units when Germany was already completely disintegrated was no less...
...Expeditionary Force under General Dwight Eisenhower crossed the Rhine and began the great sweep across the German plain toward juncture with Soviet armies advancing through Poland (see map). On April 12 armored units of Lieut. General William H. Simpson's Ninth U.S. Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg and Tangermünde, and thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition of Hitler's Eastern Front armies...
...Baltic coast at Warnemünde, docks are being built to establish one of the world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...