Word: torgau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torgau is a small German town (peacetime population 14,000) but it-had its place in history long before last week. It was the scene of Frederick the Great's victory over Austria in 1760, and a junction point for Austrian and Russian armies massing against Frederick the following year. Last week history repeated itself at Torgau...
...early days of last week Torgau was almost deserted. Marshal Konev's artillery had battered it from across the Elbe. Only a few Germans, too numb to care what happened, searched rubbish piles for scraps of food and hunted cigaret butts among the cobblestones. The rest had joined a panicky throng swarming westward toward the U.S. lines...
...along the narrow Mulde River, a western tributary of the Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...
...Dear, Quiet Please." The great meeting, so long awaited, was real at last. Moscow fired its maximum salute of 24 salvos from 324 guns; Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman issued resounding statements. TIME Correspondent William Walton, who reached Torgau not long after the first meeting, reported the hesitant speech of a Red Army lieutenant, who, rising in the midst of a joyful hubbub, said...