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...village of Lichtenbusch (pop. 3). CJ The road from Roetgen to Lammersdorf, a marsh, a small forest, and the villages of Losheim, Hemmeres and Leykoul (combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Autocrat's Adieu | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...last week U.S. soldiers had been on German soil a little more than five months. In Aachen, Roetgen, Eilendorf, Cologne they had seen the ruined face of western Germany. And they had seen thousands of German faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Faces in the Wallow | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...first U.S. armor rumbled into the first German town, Roetgen, Germans froze and stared. Then a German made a tentative V-sign. A woman started to cry. Finally a Hausfrau approached with an offering-a skirtful of green apples. Against orders, the G.I.s passed out chocolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heavings | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...demonstration took place in the town of Roetgen (pop. 2,300), near Aachen. Many of the townspeople had fled. Some were hiding in terror. Civil Affairs Officer Captain Gordon F. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., drove in with five men, parked his jeep in front of the post office, established himself as judge, mayor and military boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: Ruling the Conquered | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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