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Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
Early in 1946, town and village elections would be held in the U.S. zone, and U.S. troops withdrawn to three state capitals, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt am Main...
...working at the 97th Evacuation Hospital at Stuttgart when he got a presidential summons to report at Potsdam. There Mr. Truman asked him a few questions. Says Graham: "I guess I passed because the next day they asked me about the appointment...
...Nazis' Boats. On the Atlantic coast, French armored and infantry detachments cleared the Gironde estuary, opened the great port of Bordeaux to Allied ships for the first time in five years. The French First Army, on the right bank of the Rhine, captured Stuttgart and suddenly leaped south to the heavily guarded Swiss border, trapping some thousands of Germans in the Black Forest. The French also reached Lake Constance, not long after four boatloads of guilt-stricken Nazis had fled to the eastern end of the lake, where they could duck into the Alpine bastion. A few frantic latecomers...
...offensive. Under cover of a long spell of bad weather, German war plants had bounded back into high production, and a battered Luftwaffe was not only recovering but expanding fast when, on Feb. 20, Allied airmen struck. For five days bombers pounded Leipzig, Bernburg, Brunswick, Oschersleben, Regensburg, Augsburg, Furth, Stuttgart. "We lost 244 heavy bombers and 33 fighting planes." But-'"those five days changed the history of the air war." German aircraft plants never recovered from the aerial onslaught...