Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strasbourg Cathedral, outstanding 700-year-old example of Gothic architecture, bombed twice, but damage "insignificant...
...precarious was the enemy situation south of the Moselle that front correspondents foresaw Eisenhower's armies coming up to the Rhine from Bingen to Strasbourg without much delay. German industrial towns of the west bank (Mainz, Worms, Ludwigshafen) would be put out of action, and some on or near the east bank (Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe) would be brought under artillery fire. And the Nazis would go cross-eyed watching the whole 800-mile stretch of the Rhine from Switzerland to The Netherlands...
...hear that the Rhine had been crossed must have been a shattering blow to the remnants of German morale. The Rhine, the sacred river that winds through German song & story, had not been crossed by hostile armies since Napoleon passed over it at Strasbourg in 1805. * As a military factor, the Remagen bridgehead offered the chance of a drive to the northeast, outflanking the Ruhr; or a push to the southeast, forcing a German withdrawal from the Saar and the rest of the Rhineland south of the Moselle...
General Charles de Gaulle looked at the bright new posters and found them good. They pictured Indo-China's blue skies, palm trees and temples as a backdrop for French tanks and jungle troops. Their slogan: "Yesterday Strasbourg, tomorrow Saigon! Join the French Expeditionary Forces of the Extreme Orient...
André Malraux, leftist French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope}, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the 1940 Battle of France, was still in the thick of it - leading his own 4,000-man F.F.I, army in the fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined...