Word: remagen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want. It is not represented by the jarring contrast between the smooth face and the scarred. It is expressed in the fact that, politically speaking, Germany has no face at all. One may look in vain for it in any small town -a town, for example, like Remagen...
Here, four years ago, the 9th Armored Division of the U.S. First Army crossed the Rhine. The U.S. Army left few marks on Remagen. It left the name "Texas Roy," splashed in green paint across a wall by the Rhine, and a tiny "USA" scratched into the cement of an apartment building. It left the bodies of several American soldiers, which were recovered from beneath the collapsed Ludendorff bridge a few weeks ago. I could not find anything else the U.S. had left behind. Certainly it did not leave democracy...
Frau Karin Loef, the city government's handy woman who has been aide to nine Remagen mayors since the war, told me: "Democracy, well it is rather like a fairy tale to most people here...
...read: human-interest stories, hard-boiled anecdotes, Perils-of-Pauline asides. In field hospitals Correspondent Carpenter saw "the hideous mess which high-explosive makes of human flesh." In newly liberated Paris she lived on "K rations, cognac and champagne." On the Rhine she rushed over the newly captured Remagen Bridge while MPs shouted, "Keep ten paces between you and the next guy-it's hot around here...
...deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner Eisenhower was called to the phone. "We soon heard his voice saying, 'Brad, that's wonderful. . . . Sure, get right on across with everything you've got. ... To hell with the planners.' " The Remagen bridge had just been captured; Bradley was calling in to report...