Word: roetgen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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