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After a brutal four months spent fighting in the depths of a mountain winter, the rolling hills of springtime Germany seemed warm and peaceful... |
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...but looks could be deceiving. At Heilbronn and, to a lesser extent, other places along the way from Ludwigshafen to Stuttgart, remnants of the German Army stood and fought... until they were destroyed. (above) Here the remains of a completely destroyed Jagdpanther ("Hunting Panther") tank destroyer bears mute testimony to the disintegration of the German Army. |
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As the 100th slashed through southeastern Germany, their columns passed thousands of liberated forced laborers from countries all over Europe. |
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