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"Thoughts -Always- Under Construction" by Bernhard Wichert, Roetgen near the City of Aachen/ West Germany fm Member of the IASA-Germany (The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives)
A MOMENT IN HISTORY - Germany, October 1944 As a historian I'd like you to share with me a `A Moment in History´: 60 years ago, on October 20,1944, the city of my birth, Aachen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen http://www.aachen.de/DE/tourismus_stadtinfo/aktuell/index.html was conquered by the American Army. It was the first German city-situated at the Belgium/Dutch border- that had fallen into Allied hands. The SS and GESTAPO had followed their orders from Berlin not to surrender, to have the city destr