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Wreckage in Coblenz, German city at the juction of the Rhine and Moselle rivers, is viewed here by a G
Wreckage in Coblenz, German city at the juction of the Rhine and Moselle rivers, is viewed here by a G

Wreckage in Coblenz, German city at the juction of the Rhine and Moselle rivers, is viewed here by a G

Date3/26/1945
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Original Toronto Star caption: Wreckage in Coblenz; German city at the juction of the Rhine and Moselle rivers; is viewed here by a G.I. of the U.S. Third Army. Behind the wrecked tram can be seen a section of the cathedral with its windows smashed
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019429F
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Airborne troops are landing all around this German woman and her children who have taken refuge in a fox hole on the Rhine's east bank
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Hitler's Launch, the Hansestadt, which was presented to him by the city of Cologne, is seen here riding at anchor in the now quiet waters of the Rhine(...)
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Russian slave laborer here points out a former German guard, right, who beat prisoners in the Nazi camp
Russian slave laborer here points out a former German guard, right, who beat prisoners in the Nazi camp
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A group of German prisoners, including a wounded man, left, leave the flaming city under guard of a U
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Germans are reminded of their barbarous cruelty in this sign-one of two which mark site of now-destroyed Belsen horror camp. The other is written in German
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No laughing matter, these German civilians agree after they have seen the fantastic barbarism which their fellow Germans inflicted on hundreds of thousands in an orgy of sadism
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