European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D 1945 Page 5 or Densyl re song and leaders of High instead off unday Par and s Colma i by Ralph stars and stripes j eth the 28th s i Bay in co Marij t All dressed jes walking do going Tot go in the ser Schmitts the Peel in to bomb ills were the City that wanting to Rushing in i and on the 5 by Sticky Pool of j i German didst Notia it except for be of kids the civilians Tice just to notice the it was and people want that themselves y by being Cle walking slow he War i in and seeing now and it that All not everybody on a sides a Little old won waving a Hon Sistar americ rooms Rode or was in a Camp for two he gave red French drop pings i there was the on the ground captured Kraft Long by these krauts specimens during noon id is troopers i while a tired with a As smiled by sharing a big d at a woman i Back at a we among into the sic troops an and put him tilled out Quick to stand there j still fascinated while their Iga is sound Hool where been walked Jones i suit writer Means Hitler set up the school in which state were to be but sleeping in steam dining rooms and studying in sunny doughs of the 47th cocked their feet on the made their Beds wherever they wished and tossed ration cans out of the shattered the High on the Hills above urfa Stasso formed by the dams on the urfa East of was Ideal for the the mists swirling about the tops of the dark Pines shrouding the the cold Grey Waters of the Lake below and the echoes which rumble through the All form a perfect wagnerian setting for the j training of the dark fledglings of the nazi thousands trained Here the with a dozen Odd huge Granite am Phi and a vast was built in the Early Days of nazi Rule and youths by the thousand were sent Here for training and indic nazi even Hitler came to watch and applaud the students As they marched in the courtyard and stiffly saluted the Swastika which floated from a pole on a great there was a com portable where they drank non alcoholic Hitler the tired yanks didst bother looking up when they passed the where tattered remnants of a Flag and they swore when Toey saw the alcohol free Mark on toe bottles in the they swore again when they saw the bottles were attract no attention massive Stone eagles along the approaches to the main entrances didst interest them and they casually scuffed through piles of pamphlets and school they looked at a Magazine called Der Adler and cursed this Ime when they saw Pic ures of an american captured in his head bandaged and a second Patch on his american tanks on the slope of i Hill near the school fired at the sermans on the other Side of the in the office of the head professor a lieutenant said dont too damned we stat going to stay Here some High brass will come around and outrank us and Well have to 50 out and capture us another Orde Asburg nazi Sery Cradle of a thousand year had lasted less than a dozen maybe the name should ave been Swan song help gite you question the Apo found and personal Theodore lets belonging by agent by Cpl Afos i Louis Chicago Tsy by Fitzgerald Platteville 1 Opl Ati Robert i Ashum Broa Zajf Jersey City sgt j Herbert in Tien Blair e ads double As artillery in night barrage on German positions army signal corps photo m10 tank serving As fire at night on enemy positions in they Are using two types of one has a very Bright powder Flash the other has a Dull red berlins fall will end nazi pcs Tell 3d army men by James Cannon and Pat Mitchell stars and stripes Stalf writers with third troops in this area said today that Many German prisoners believe the War will be Over As soon As Berlin Falls to the the they seemed to lose their will to fight with every mile the reds there has been a definite lower ing of German morale since the russians started their said Charles of new but there is no feeling of guilt in them at All they Are Only worried about what is going to happen to Germany now that they have get word from East the Jerries Are getting the news about whats happening with the said Harrison who has germans admitted that the rus sians will get nothing from Berlin is in Fred a German speaking Joe born in said that prisoners with whom hed talked were plenty fed up with Hitler lies and plenty worried about the russian they said they had been led to believe that the Luftwaffe was on the Western front when they were fighting on the Eastern Mackel they transferred to the Western they were told guarded prisoners in Africa and that the Luftwaffe was needed on the ones i talked to Are the Eastern front and that nazi air sure that the War wont last a Day Power was being used against the once the huskies get hold of Ber dont use my name because i still have relatives in said a German born american Cor but All the prisoners Ive interrogated know they cant win the their attitude changed since the russians started to one of them the War is Over for me it will be Over for you in three when the rus sians take Godhelp us family in danger area a German Soldier captured by Willard of de a platoon Leader in the Sec Ond battalion of the 357th like a Taylor when i told him the russians were closing in on Taylor explained that the prisoners family lives in the sectors through which the russian Power is John of India said that English speaking the prisoners who came in to Day and yesterday probably would never have surrendered before the russian said Alfred of Ann do you think those mortars Are russians overshooting asked a pfc As shrapnel rattled on the colonels arc wife gives birth to boy 365th station first i baby born at the 365th station pos Sibly the first born in was delivered 2 by Ethan the seven Pound boy is the son of col and Arden of Drill is an arc Hospital worker on the col Drill is with ninth rifles tanks but engineers held bulge Road with 168th combat stacked up against Tiger were the Odds against col William Nungesser 168th combat during those first hours of the nazi breakthrough in it was 0900 on 16 and the unit had orders to build a perimeter sow demolish Bridges and construct Road blocks on a Road winding East of but the Jerries interrupted in 15 minutes enemy tanks pounded the encircled German in Fantry raked them with Small arms but the Road was the 168th dug in and took they held it for five hellish on the morning of they pulled out of the line after being relieved by elements of the 7th tricked the enemy in the the germans had the area the men were broken Down into squads and Henry Rocky moved out with a fourteen Man patrol the patrol spotted the enemy and dug in and the men list ened to Jerry officers and men boasting about soon being in the following Pliske tricked the enemy by spouting Ger and moved his men on to a mistaken for a Road guide he waved Jerry vehicles next Day the patrol obtained food in a belgian the exhausted men hid in the Brush for the next two moving along on the night of they were halted by an Amer ican sentry of the 101st the sentry looked them called for Relief and took them to the they were Given blankets and and finally they nazis stopped within 3 of duchy capital by Edward Murray United press correspondent somewhere in Luxem Luxem Bourg again it is now possible to reveal that the von Rundstedt offensive penetrated to within three Miles of the duchy capital and included a plot by Ger Man paratroop assassins to kill High ranking american officials and a number of prominent Luxem the first full Story of the ten Sion packed Days when the Ger Man tide rolled to the Brink of tace frightened capital was obtained in an interview with Frank of head of the combined Mission and civil affairs for officials alerted government officials were alerted to move out rumours on the German Advance literally deluged every the Para troopers we feared Fraser were the assassins whose intended victims included High ranking american and civilians whom the germans necessarily correctly in we Drew a cordon three deep around every Inch of the a so tight that an eel could c slide american soldiers As Well As Luxembourg resistance forces gradually killed or rounded up the heavily armed paratroopers and their plot to kill prominent officials was discovered of the assassination plot was part of the whole German scheme to disrupt and cause confusion in the Allied lines in front of the intended German avoided panic Fraser said the sheaf Mission As Well As other americans in Luxembourg when von Rundstedt struck sat tight to avoid panicking the already excited we looked Calm but didst feel that Fraser i Xian officers guarding the prime minis other members of the government some where in the we also had Prince Felix husband of the grand Duchess on ice for the quickest getaway if the american charge George was similarly i was in Contact with Bradley by Telephone and once even made a trip to take the prime minister to see Bradley so that the latter could reassure him that patrons troops had everything under Cermak Kin awarded dec for l6 action James of West a Nephew of Chicago late was awarded the dec for heroism during the to break through last while serving with the 41st he single Anderly turned Back a German column at Pont brocade using a  and a 57mm antitank i engineers Honor departed Bastogne comrades in memorial service c of the ninth if nth pays homage to its members who were lest defending the the command no officer is shown Reading the