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Perhaps catching on to democratic ways, Germans began to gripe-at Allied "inefficiency," at the coming Nurnberg trials of big war criminals. Thousands of unemployed men had ample time for mischief. Here & there, snipers were still active. At night, G.I.s found wires strung across highways, intended to decapitate motorcyclists. U.S. Army cars were looted. German girls suspected of fraternizing were waylaid and warned...
Next day Allied officers handed copies of the indictment to each of the defendants in the lightless cells of Nurnberg prison. Informed that they could choose their attorneys from prepared lists, the indicted reacted variously...
...Russian prisoners of war from west to east, there was still no apparent coordination of policy between the western allies and Russia. While the Russians were winning friends and influencing Germans in the east, Germans in the west were beginning to show open hostility to the occupying armies. In Nurnberg German women turned their backs on U.S. soldiers, sometimes openly sneered...
...great cities of Germany are dead. When you first see Cologne, you think that no other city could be smashed into such rubble and crazy, fire-blackened walls. When you see Dusseldorf, you decide that it must be the worst; but Essen changes your mind, until you see Nurnberg. Then you know that they have all been so horribly shattered by air power that the question of whether one has a few more houses blasted than another is inconsequential...
...through. Under one of the youngest division commanders in the Army, 38-year-old Major General Robert T. Frederick, they drove on into Aschaffenburg, where they ran into some of the nastiest opposition yet-fanatical Nazi boys, girls and old men. They smashed on into the Nazi shrine of Nurnberg, crossed the Danube, and with the 42nd liberated the prisoners of Dachau. A week before V-E day, the weary 45th marched into Munich...