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500,000 MORE SURRENDER TO MONTGOMERY; YIELD IN HOLLAND, DENMARK, NORTH REICH (5/5/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 5/5/45 | Drew Middleton, Bill Downs, Clifton Daniel, Daniel de Luce, Virginia Lee Warren, Warren Moscow, more

Posted on 05/05/2015 4:28:55 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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To: Rebelbase
I'm aware of a book but not a movie. It would make one heck of a movie, though.


61 posted on 05/05/2015 5:18:52 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: freefdny; Homer Simpson

ditto


62 posted on 05/05/2015 5:22:03 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: EternalVigilance
That's the tragic "rest of the story." German communities in Eastern Europe, some centuries old, were wiped out and/or pushed west.

After what the Nazis did to the Poles and Russians, they were in no mood to be gracious. The war in the East was brutal.

63 posted on 05/05/2015 5:23:58 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 21twelve

Yes, the Americans gave German POWs to the French to use as slave labor after the war.


64 posted on 05/05/2015 8:19:33 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: EternalVigilance

The Hohensalzburg Fortress is the castle seen on the hill in the background as Maria dances through Salzburg in the Sound of Music.


65 posted on 05/06/2015 9:59:34 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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