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Displaying a small white flag with a red cross on it, five men last week took a rowboat across the Elbe River to U.S. positions at Magdeburg. Out onto the shore stepped a jug-eared, thin-faced man in a carefully tailored Wehrmacht officer's uniform. He identified himself as Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, "Mouthpiece of the Wehrmacht"-the highest ranking, most objective and (outside Germany) most seriously regarded war commentator on the German radio...
...Ninth Army captured Magdeburg (pop. 294.000) and 708,000,000 marks in the Magdeburg branch of the Reichsbank Plauen (pop. 111,000) fell to the Third Army...
Time for a Breather? At Magdeburg, where it had bridged the Elbe, the "Hell on Wheels" Division was forced to backtrack for the first time in 30 months of fighting Germans. Three enemy divisions came charging out from Berlin and flailed at the bridgehead troops with massed artillery. The Yanks yielded the bridgehead with heavy casualties, some swimming back across the 450-ft. river. Fifteen miles to the southeast, however, at Barby, other Ninth Army units held a bridgehead five miles deep...
...mist one morning last week two fast trains ran close together on the line from Berlin to Cologne and Neunkirchen. Ahead was a Berlin-Cologne Christmas special, jampacked with third-class passengers. Behind was the regular Berlin-Neunkirchen express. As the Christmas special slowed down for Genthin station, near Magdeburg, the express passed a stop signal. Either the engineer did not see the signal, or its mechanism was faulty. Without slowing down, the express ploughed into the rear of the special, telescoping three flimsy third-class coaches. When rescuers had counted up the dead and injured there were 132 killed...
...refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters to escort them on bombing missions. One mutiny was said to have occurred among three squadrons of Field Marshal Göring's pet "Swallows of Death" wing stationed at Magdeburg, who were ordered to intercept Britain's leaflet raiders. Another mutiny was located in the reconnaissance groups at Kaiserslautern, where seven squadrons balked. They, apparently, did not relish the receptions the French in their Curtisses had been extending. This week the French General Staff reported the engagement...