Word: siegen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war the Nazis transferred coffin and contents to Siegen, in Westphalia. Last week a U.S. Army truck brought them back. Said the soldier driver reporting to the Allied officer in charge: "I've got the bones with me. Where...
...Hamm, which has the biggest rail marshalling yards in Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...
British and American pilots wondered how any German could live in the inferno below. Said fine flyer: "The Ruhr is lit up, messed up and ruined. The hearts of the cities are dead." Perhaps the main targets - Münster, Osnabrück, Rheine, Coesfeld, Siegen, among many others-were now only names for history, the relics of air power's biggest day in its biggest week...