Word: ehrenbreitstein
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...units of the Third Army's 87th Division crossed the Moselle in as sault boats. Weak enemy, mortar and machine-gun fire soon died out, and later that day Coblenz was in U.S. hands. The Nazis began shelling the city from the Ehrenbreitstein fortress across the Rhine. Some 500 prisoners rounded up in Coblenz were tatterdemalion survivors of 15 or 20 different outfits. They were angry at SS troops who had scuttled for safety across the Rhine and blown up the bridges...
...Peace Leader. Bliss was his mood. Sailing up the Rhine with Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Host Hitler landed amid transports of devotion from his 500,000 guests. Since Coblenz was too small to hold them, they massed on green fields beneath the crags of Ehrenbreitstein, a fortress surveying the Rhine, and the Moselle. Saar bosoms swelled with pride as high German Government officials took seats below a platform reserved for prominent Saarlander and My Leader. So terrific was the crush that Herr Hitler made his way on foot for the last mile, shaking hands, slapping...
Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
...series, lent by Mr. Francis Bullard '86. The latter has been on temporary exhibition twice before. The others on view are: a very early drawing of bridge and cottage in much the mannered style of Turner's masters; an early drawing of a country gentleman's house and ground; "Ehrenbreitstein," probably one of his first continental series; "Devonport," one of the most consummate of the "England and Wales" series; "The Simplon," one of the late Alpine studies; and a rapid study of waves breaking on a beach. The "Tintagel," "Devonport" and "Simplon" form a set of Turner's most consummate...
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