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Nestling in the famed vineyard country of the Moselle Valley, Trier is the sort of town that tourists call "picturesque." It is an even more ancient town than Aachen,* the seat of Charlemagne; it is, in fact, the oldest town in Germany...
...Trier was founded, as Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
Last week, when General Patton's Third Army approached Trier, the Nazis could not afford a heavy defense for the sake of prestige. Several hundred Germans battled briefly on the outskirts, then gave up Trier to the 10th Armored and 94th Infantry Divisions. The old cathedral was badly battered. The old caretaker said, "See what Hitler has done...
Rundstedt's Move. In the south, General Patton's Third Army was hurling savage diversionary attacks between Bitburg and Prum, and against Trier in the Moselle Valley. General Patch's Seventh Army was attacking Forbach and Saarbrücken. In the north, General Crerar's First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...
...Germans' 10th and 9th Armored Divisions, which had spearheaded the Ardennes offensive, suddenly reappeared in other sectors-one in the battle for Strasbourg, the other on the Third Army's front, south of Trier...