European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tor Day. February 13, to the stars and stripes Page 9 Lone nazi tank guards Rhine at Cologne the strategic City of Cologne scene of bitter Street fighting got the 1st . Army s full treatment. After the City s fall on March 6, 1945, the stately Cologne Cathedral is surrounded by a sea of ruins. A Cathedral of Cologne still stands i photographers capture 47 in building by Ken Zumwalt stars Ond stripes staff writer Cologne March 7 the Cologne Cathedral regarded As one of the most perfect examples of gothic architecture in Western Europe stands tonight in this Eity 6 Stadt Mitte area minus serious darn age wrought by War although Many buildings in the same sector were demolished by Allied Aerial and artillery bombardment. The Catholic Cathedral s windows Are classless but its two. 512-foot Spires Are intact. However cultural observers stated that the edifice is not in irreparable condition and that architects could supervise its rehabilitation to make it look just As it did in prewar Days. Three . Army signal corps photographers accepted the sur Render of 47 germans most of them uniformed members of the Cologne police Force who were hiding in a converted Hospital in the basement of the Cathedral. Seventeen of the captured Ger mans were patients attended by three German women. Three of the injured were German tankers who earlier were rescued from a Blaz ing Mark in target of a 3d army div tank. The photographers were capt Charles Holley of los Angeles s sgt Voight Garrell of Beverly Hills calif., and sgt Harold Roberts of Maiden mass. They accompanied the tankers into the Stadt Mitte District and filmed the Battle Between the Sherman and the Mark in. Three american soldiers died in the Sherman. The Cathedral basement two germ a a nurses Anna and Susan attended the injured. Amer ican medics set up a Clearing Sta Paris stage door canteen a Paris version of new York s stage door canteen will Welcome its first i guest tomorrow night at 144 champs Elysee near the arc Detriomphe. 10th army overruns Trier makes roman ruin look new by James Cannon stars and stripes staff writer i with 10th Ahmed div Trier March 2the Porta Nigra Arch Lic of roman architecture crumbled by the centuries but unmarked by War was in better shape than most of Trier which fell to Day to this armoured division. Churchill surveys ruins predicts no idleness with 9th army March 2 delayed making Bis first trip to Germany since the beginning of the War. Prime minister win Ston Churchill today saw the destruction of Aachen and the rabble of Julich. Standing on the Small Bill overlooking Julich s Citadel which had been fought Over exactly one week before Churchill sure grimly at the empty Sheila of houses and said there won t be any unemployment Here after the  in relation to the importance of Trier As a Road rail and ordnance Center the nazis did t make a Strong fight. But it was no push Over and the division left Many vehicles and some men on the approaches to the town. Attacking with five columns of infantry and tanks the 10h reached the outskirts of Trier yesterday at noon and 34 hours later capt Robert Wilson raised an american Flag that his wife had sent him from Newark n. J., Over the Porta Nigra hotel in the Center of the smashed City. Organized resistance had ceased and there were Only occasional fire fights As foot troops of the 94th inf div mopped up. The germans made their stands at the approaches to the City of 80,000, fighting with 88s, mortars and Small arms from behind mine protected Road blocks. A nest of 88s firing from a Barracks on the Edge of town knocked out some of our vehicles before ads knocked them out basement houses improvised Hospital tips and made plans to evacuate the germans. One of the patients a 53-year-old police sergeant who spoke English said he had suffered a nervous breakdown earlier today. Although he declined to give his name be spoke of the War himself and the Battle for Cologne. He insisted he was not a member of either the wehrmacht or the Volki Ilum by virtue of his membership in the police Force. Nazis doom officers of Remagen fiasco London March 18 up a Ger Man communique reported today that the five officers who were in command of the. Remagen Bridge area had been sentenced to death by courts martial and shot except for one sentenced in absent a. The communique said they were sentenced to death partly for cow Ardice and partly for having seriously neglected their duties in the Field because of having negligently omitted to blow up in time or determinedly to defend the Rhine Bridge at  maps Hunt origin of Brandy which felled 4 soldiers Nancy March 2 a French and . Military police tonight were investigating the origin of Poison Brandy believed to be based on burning alcohol As four Amer ican soldiers were reported gravely ill in a Hospital Here after drinking the mixture. Two polish farm workers who also drank some of the Brandy died. Recently six americans died Here after drinking Bathtub co  fraternizing costs $390 with v corps March 17 is a special court martial recently sentenced a warrant officer to for features totalling $390 for violating no fraternization orders. He was tried under the 96th article of War. The sentence was approved by higher authority. 3 yanks killed by Shell As Battle for City ends by Andy Rooney stars and stripes staff writer Cologne March 6three american soldiers perhaps the last to give their lives in the Battle for this huge Rhine City died in a Sher Man tank tonight at the Northwest Corner of the great Cologne Cathe dral. Five tanks of 3 six tank task Force ordered to Advance through the murderous crossfire of Cologne s streets pushed past the Cathedral past the smoking Sherman past the three newly dead americans and to the Shine River 200 Yards away. The fight for Cologne was won. The 3d army Ewe tanks were commanded by it col c. L. Miller. On i finds parents in Cologne hiding from Gestapo Cologne March 7 delayed after 12 years m sgt Bernard Bernkopf of Camden n.j., returned to Cologne where he spent the first 20 years of his life and found Bis jewish parents hiding from the  father 65 years old and his Mother had been hidden by gentiles in Cologne for More than a year while the German secret police looked for  found relatives in the town of Krefeld and they told him in whispers where he might locate his family once he got to Cologne. There were tears in his father s eyes today As the two wandered Arm in Arm through the ruins of Cologne. How did you like the 1,000 bomber raids Momma Bernkopf asked his Mother. Beautiful " the Mother replied. They were Beautiful Board one m4 was 1st it Feidinand Ledoux. Ait the Corner of the Cathedral just Short of the River the Lead tank stopped and Ledoux got out to direct the following tanks. From beyond the far Side of the Cathedral hidden behind Brick rub ble the 88 of a German Mark in opened up and bored a Hole through the gun Turret of the Lead tank. The Driver was killed instantly and two other Ronen were trapped in the burning tank. Miller and Ledoux ran Back to the tank. With the assistant Driver who had crawled out they dragged the tank commander from the Sherman. His right leg was off above the knee and he died As they dragged him to a Crater for Protection from the constant sniper fire. Meanwhile on the Side coming along parallel to the Rhine a third Force commanded by it col mat thew w. Kane of Des Moines Iowa was approaching the same intersection. The Lead tank fired three shots Point Blank into the German Mark in and destroyed it before the Ger mans could move again. The strange touch of the drama of that final Battle for the heart of the City was the Atory of the photographer who from the South Side of the Cathedral took motion Pic Tures of the German tank As it fired. The photographer s sgt Voigt Gar Rell of Beverly Hill calif., did not know what the German tank was firing at. He got the pictures and raced Back two blocks through the Cologne streets to infantrymen who were searching houses and called for Bazooka or an anti tank gun. Garrelts pictures of the German tank taken broadside Are the factual pictures of the shot which knocked out the Lead tank. Two Sherman come to Cologne. Two . Sherman tanks Nestle close to mined buildings As the 1st . Army batters its Way into Cologne. In the background Are the twin Spires of the famed Cologne Cathedral. Keystone