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THROUGH THE STEIGERWALD 1 Mustering of the Nationalsozialistischen Kriegsopferversorgung(National Socialist War Victims Welfare League), Bad Windsheim. (Stadtarchiv Bad Windsheim.) Elderly Volkssturm men with Panzerfäuste. (Mahnung Gegen Rechts, Stadt Lauffen/Neckar.) ENDKAMPF 2 Plundering of a food shop in Lauffen/Neckar, April 1945. (Mahnung Gegen Rechts, Stadt Lauffen/Neckar.) German POWs, February 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 201174-S.) [3.81.221.121] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:59 GMT) THROUGH THE STEIGERWALD 3 Elderly POWs in Nuremberg, April 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 203814.) Tanks of Combat Command A, Forty-third Tank Battalion, Twelfth Armored Division, near Scheinfeld, April 16, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 206445.) ENDKAMPF 4 A tank from Troop E, Ninety-second Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, fires at German positions near Weschnitz (Odenwald), March 29, 1945. (NA, RG 111, 336910.) A tank and two medics from Troop E, Ninety-second Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, return with a wounded platoon leader near Weschnitz (Odenwald), March 29, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 421379.) [3.81.221.121] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:59 GMT) THROUGH THE STEIGERWALD 5 Above, African American troops of the Sixty-sixth Armored Infantry Battalion, Twelfth Armored Division, in the center of the wreckedtown of Erbach (Odenwald),April 1,1945.(NA,RG 111, SC 334113.) Below, GIs from Second Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, Forty-fifth Infantry Division, routing out snipers in Königshofen, April 8, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 335303.) ENDKAMPF 6 Hitler Youth being instructed in the use of a Panzerfäuste. (Photo in author’s possession.) In a scene typical of the dangerous nature of street fighting even in rural areas such as Middle Franconia, soldiers of the Sixth Armored Division dodge sniper fire in Oberdorla, April 4, 1945. Note the dead GI in the foreground. (NA, RG 111, SC 203216.) [3.81.221.121] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:59 GMT) THROUGH THE STEIGERWALD 7 Above, After the breakthrough at Ulsenheim on April 11, 1945, soldiers of the Twelfth Armored Division enter the village of Krautostheim,five miles to the east, likely unaware of the unintentionally ironic injunction on the sign to “drive carefully .” (NA, RG 111, SC 263520.) Below, In Franconia, GIs found that confusion often made the already chaotic situation evenmore dangerous.In Kronach,troops of the 101st Infantry Regiment race across the town square under fire, even as white flags fly from various buildings, April 14, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 206235.) ENDKAMPF 8 Above, To the west of Leutershausen, the town of Waldenburg illustrated the consequences of the failure to surrender. GIs from the 255th Infantry Regiment, Sixty-third Infantry Division, move through the destroyed city, April 16, 1945. (NA,RG 111, SC 205778.) Below, An antitank obstacle in Bad Windsheim,April 1945. (Stadtarchiv Bad Windsheim.) [3.81.221.121] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:59 GMT) THROUGH THE STEIGERWALD 9 Adolf Hitler, flanked by Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels, at Burg Hoheneck for the burial of Ernst Pöhner, November 23, 1927. In the background between Hess and Hitler is Hitler’s driver, Julius Schreck. (Reprinted by permission from the book Ipsheim: Die Chronik eines Fränkischen Dorfes by Christoph Rückert [Ipsheim: Marktgemeinde Ipsheim, 1989], photographer unknown.) GIs from Combat Command B, Twelfth Armored Division, on an attack mission wait while a treadway bridge is installed near Dietersheim, April 14, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 260368-1.) ENDKAMPF 10 Above, A bridge is installed under fire near Dietersheim by combat engineers from the Twelfth Armored Division, April 14, 1945. (NA, RG 111,SC 326747.) Below,A GI fromCombat CommandA,Twelfth Armored Division, looks for more Germans after his unit has just killed several fleeing from the burning vehicle in the background. Near Emskirchen, north of Wilhermsdorf, April 16, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 206446.) [3.81.221.121] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:59 GMT) THROUGH THE STEIGERWALD 11 GIs from the Eleventh Armored Division experience the perils of street fighting east of Nuremberg in the town of Wernberg, April 22, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 205298.) Antiaircraft gunners from the Twelfth Armored Division hit this German plane, oneof ten shot downover a three-day period,as it attempted tobomb the Danube River bridge at Dillingen, April 25, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 135582.) ENDKAMPF 12 Soldiers from the Ninety-second Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron locate a camouflaged Werwolf hut near Dischingen used by Hitler Youth and SS fanatics, May 30, 1945. (NA, RG 111, SC 334152.) Die Wolfsangel (wolf trap...