The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-30
9th Joins Reds
Near Wittenberg
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pine foothills barely 80 miles from
the Inn river valley and Adolf Hit
ler's birthplace at Braunau.
Unconfirmed reports said Third
army troops aready had linked up
with the Red army in the Danube
Valley 90-odd miles northeast of
Berchtesgaden.
The Seventh army driving on the
Bremen Pass was about lis miles
north OF Allied troops advancing
through northern Italy near the
north shore of Lake Garda.
$4,000 Prisoners
German resistance was almost
non existent at most points as the
two American Armies plunged into
Nazidoms last redoubt. Together
the Third and Seventh Armies swept
up almost 1000 prisoners Saturday
and Sunday, eliminating at a blow
the bulk of the divisions massed in
Bavaria for the dying third Reich's
last fight.
The notorious Dachau concentra-
ton camp seven miles north OF
Munich-the first and blacklist OF
the political death camps estab-
lished in the early days OF the Hit
Ter regime-was overrun by tne
Seventh Army yesterday.
There the Yanks killed or cap
tured 300 SIS guards and liberated
80 900 political and religious prison.
ers who greeted their rescuers with
hysterical joy.
For hundreds and perhaps thou
sands Of Dachau's other inmates the
Americans came too late. Fifty box
cars were found on nearby rail-
road siding, loaded with bodies, tor
ture chambers, gas boxes and other
paraphernalia Of terror that the
Na1 guards were attempting tc
remove.
Far to the north, the American
Ninth Army dashed out in new
attack from its Elbe river bridge
head southwest of BERLIN. The
Americans plunged 10 miles east Of
Zerbot to the Coswig area, A miles
southwest of Berlin and barely four
miles west OF the Red Army lines
at Wittenberg.
Stiff fighting developed at Cos
wig early today but all accounts IN
dicated another juncture with the
Russians was imminent.
British Second Army forces FAR
Their to the northwest drove SD
miles or more north Of their Elbe
bridgehead to within 20 miles o.
the Baltic seaport Of Lubbock
Canadian troops on their left f1ant
drove across the Ledo river, las
natural barrier before Emden, ant
advanced within IS miles OF tn
big north sea naval base.
Rumors OF an impending "ceas'
fire" order that would signal I'M
end of the war in Europe Wer'
sweeping through the Allied from
line ranks. The U. S. Seventh Arm.
was reported to have been alerate'
for a sudden end of hostilltles a1te
the capture of Munich.
First accounts from the Nazi cita
del said German resistance Their
were considerably lighter than MAJ
been expected.
!, TANKS and motorized infantr,
formations of three Seventh Arm
Divisions rolled into the streets o
Munich from the north northWeS
and west Sunday, expecting to NM
four crack Elite Guards division
drawn UP to meet them.
Instead they found the city fes
tooned with white flags OF surrenoe
and only a handful of black-shir
fanatics battling to defend the cit
that. more than Berlin, representa-
Nazidom to Germany and the Worlc
There was no immediate word Of
> the progress of the anti-Nazi revo
: luton which broke out in Municl
Saturday and which Nazi author
tiles claimed to have suppressed.
Less than 20 miles southwest o
Munich, the Seventh Army's lott
Armored Division raced around tn
southern tip OF Ammer Lake t
Herrsching and sent strong tas
force down to the Spatzhausen, 8
miles northwest of Innsbruci
northern exit from the Brenne
Pass.
Another 10th Armored column
drove into the Alpine Passes far
ther south to capture Ober Ammer
gau, site of the famed pre-Wa
passion plays, II miles west c
Innsbruck.
Units OF the 44th Infantry Divi
I sion broke across the Austrian Dor
der In the Fuessen area 20 mile
!. west OF Ober Ammergau and ad
vanced three miles southwark int
Austrian soil to the Rosschlag are'
Front reports said the chief enem
resistance was in the form OF mine
and road blocks and that few Ger
man troops were In evidence.
On the Seventh Army's left hanl
Patton's 86th Infantry Divisio
drove into the outskirts OF Freisinl
II miles north-northeast of Municl
while the 18th Infantry crossed tn
Isar 20 miles farther to the NORTH
east in the Landshut area.
II Two other columns OF the l3t
Armored Division rammed aero
the Isar near Manning and Pla
ting, % and SO miles northeast
the 87th's bridgehcad.
III At Manning, the Americans we
80 miles north OF the Inn Vale
main communications line insit
the Bayarian Redoubt, SO nail
! northwest OF Hitler's native city
Braunau, and 70 miles due north
Berchtesgaden.