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Already Germans were getting their first, all-important impressions of foreign rule since 1813. The reasoned vigor of General Eisenhower's regulations made sense. Sometimes the variation in their execution did not. At München-Gladbach last week a military government's court for civilians sentenced two boys (16 and 17) to death for spying. Both the sentence and the scrupulously just proceedings impressed the Germans. Leniency in other cases, when death was promised by the regulations but not enforced, made Germans sneer behind their hands. In occupied Germany, among a people who would surely compare...
...Rhine's west bank and around which the Nazis had organized their strongest perimeter defense. Then, instead of crossing the Erft, the Ninth (six infantry and three armored divisions) wheeled north. The move appeared to achieve some tactical surprise. Big industrial towns fell like ripe fruit: München-Gladbach, Krefeld, Rheydt (birthplace of Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels). Krefeld, with a peacetime population of 170,000, surpassed Aachen as the biggest prize yet in the west...
...Lonely Street. I went in with the 29th Division to take München-Gladbach yesterday in one of the weirdest actions of the war. The resistance consisted mainly of isolated detachments of nondescript troops who fought briefly at street corners. Those who were left surrendered quickly and with relief. This is the way it would go. A tank passed us and went down the absolutely lonely and deserted street through the ranks of neat and excellent two-story stone buildings, the kind of street that gives you that terribly lonely, naked feeling of snipers and trouble around...
Straub of Munich, with good knowledge of cool München Brau, remarked: "Alcohol is the oldest pleasure poison known to man. . . . It is the taking of wrong amounts of alcohol by those whose systems are not properly adjusted which has caused all the trouble with drink since Noah...
...Saar region temporarily ceded to France. This is an increase of 3,350,000 over the 1919 census. Berlin remains the second largest European city, with 3,900,000 inhabitants. Hamburg is the second largest German city, with just over a million. Köln (Cologne), München, Leipzig and Dresden have each over 600,000 and Breslau exceeds the 500,000 mark...