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Category : Letters & Messages
Tags: Eisenhower, Ohrdruf, Patton, Weimar
Headquarters
Third United States Army
Office of the Commanding General
APO 403
April 15 1945
My dear Ike :
I wrote a personal letter in the enclosed wording to each Corps Commander and to the Chief of Staff, which I believe was in line with our idea.
It may interest you to know that they are very talkative, alleged former of the murder Camp was recognized by a Russian prisoner as a former guard. The prisoner beat his brain out with a rock.
We have found at a place four miles north of Weimar a similar camp, only much worse. The normal population was 25.000 and they died at a rate of about a hundred a day. The burning arrangements according to General Gay and Colonel Codman who visited it yesterday, were far superior to those which they had at Ohrdruf.
I told the press to go up there and see it, and then write as much as about it as they could. I also called General Bradley last night and suggested that you send selected individuals from the upper strata of the press to look at it, so that you can build up another page of the necessary evidences as to the brutality of the Germans.
We all enjoy your visit very much.
Most sincerely
G. S. Patton Jr
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
Headquarters SHAEF
APO 575
US Army
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Category : 23/2nd Inf Div, Germany
Tags: 002nd Infantry Division, 1st Infantry Division, 3. Panzerdivision, 8. Regiment, Belgium, Germany, Heavy FLAK unit 33, Iveldingen, Jungschar, Jungvolk, Leipzig, Leuna, Luezendorfer Garrison, Lützendorfer Kaserne, Merseburg, Mulde River, Niederbreisig, Ondenval, Remagen Bridge, Rhine River, Roer River Dams, Rudolf Fisher, Russian Army, Saale River, Schleiden Forest, Schwere Flackersatzabteilung 33, Siegfried Line, St Vith, Trebnitz, Weimar
The following informations received today (21-12-09) from one German World War Two Veteran and another link can be added to the History’s chain.
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Category : Archives Movies, Patton's 3d Army
Tags: 2nd Division, 32nd Division, 37-VIIC-HQs-Rolandsdeck, 3A-HQs-Mayen, 3A-III-C-HQs-Polch, 3A-IVC-HQs-Cochen, 42nd Division, Adenau, Ahrweiler, Altenkirchen, Austria, Berlin, Chaumont, Coblenz, Cochem., Czechoslovakia, Engers, France, Gen John J. Pershing, General Order-198, Hachenburg, Limburg, Lt Gen Courtney Hodges, Lt Gen George S. Patton Jr, Lt Gen Hunter Liggett, Lt Gen Walter Krueger, Maj Gen Charles Muir, Maj Gen John L. Hines, Maj Gen Joseph T. Dickman, Maj Gen William G. Hahn, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Mauthausen, Mayen, Neuwied, November 7 1918, Overlord, Remagen, Rhens, Stadtkreis Trier, Third Army, Third Army III Corps, Third Army IV Corps, Third Army VII Corps, Treaty of Versailles, Trier Regierungsbezirk, Weimar, Westerburg, World War One
The Third United States Army was first activated as a formation during the First World War on November 7 1918, at Chaumont, France, when the GHQ-AEF issued General Order # 198 organizing the Third Army and announcing its headquarters staff. On the 15th, Maj Gen Joseph T. Dickman assumed command and issued Third Army General Order # 1 The third Army consisted of three corps (III, Maj Gen John L. Hines; IV, Maj Gen Charles Muir; and VII, Maj Gen William G. Hahn) and seven divisions.
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Category : Cavalry Troops
Tags: 26th Infantry Division, 28th Cav Sq, 35th Infantry Division, 3rd Cavalry Division, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, 61st Army Ground Forces Band, 6th Cav Sq, 6th Cavalry Group, 87th Infantry Division, Adorf, Andernach, Antietam, Apaches, Appomattox, Bannvale, Bastogne, Belfast, Betlange, Betlange Farm, Boppard, Carling, Chancellorsville, Chicago, Civil War, Clervaux, Co Armagh, Col Edward M. Fickett, Cold Harbor, Comanches, Eisenach, Elmfield, Erfurt, Erlbach, Evan, Falkenstein, Firth of Clyde, France, Fredericksburg, Furham, Gettysburg, Giessen, Gilford, Gota, Greenock, Harlange, Joe Ben Wheat, Koblenz, L'Hopital, Lasel, Lintange, Lutremange, Mareneukirchen, Markethill, Moselle River, Negro Troops, Neumark, Normandy, Northern Ireland, Orange Hall, Our River, Peninsula, Petersburg, Pine Ridges, Queen Elisabeth, Recogne, Saar River, Saarbrucken, Scotland, Shenandoah, Sollez, Spessart, St Avold, Stramore, Surre, Tandragee Castle, Tarchamps, Thionville, Vianden, Villers-La-Bonne, Virginia, Volklingen, Waldhof, Watrange, Waxweiler, Weimar, Wilderness, Wilmerwiltz, Wiltz
The 6/CG-Mecz, under command of Col Edward M. Fickett and consisting of the 6-Sq/6CG and 28-Sq/6CG, landed in France on Jul 10 1944. The group was trained for the mission of establishing the Army Information Service for Gen George S. Patton’s Third Army while in England and in Normandy.
In July 1944, the Third Army became operational and with the 6/CG attached. Until Nov 1 1944 the group operated the Army Information Service, performing an invaluable mission for the Army Commander in keeping him completely informed as to the activities and location of his forward troops.
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Category : Shoah & Holocaust
Tags: Admiral Byrd, Aichach, Ammunition Factory, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Berlin, Bitch of Belsen, Bitch of Buchenwald, Block 41, Body Disposal Plant, Brig Gen Eric F. Wood, Brig Gen Handford McNider, Buchenwald, Buchenwälder Schlampe, Commandant René l'Hopital, Commandant William Bullitt, CWO S. M. Dye, Dachau, Die Hexe von Buchenwald, Franklin D'Olier, French 1st Army, Gen de Lattre de Tassigny, Germany, Holocaust, Irma Grese, Karl Koch, Kleine Glattbach, Little Camp, Lt Col Chas H. Ott, Lt Walter F. Emmons, Maj Gen Frank Parker, Medical Experimentation Building, Nazi Party, Oberaufseherin, Pasteur Institute, Ravensbrück, Regular Barracks, Shoah, The Hospital, Theodore Roosevelt Jr, University of Caen, University of Paris, Weimar, Witch of Buchenwald
Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. G-5
US Group Control Council.
Inspection of German concentration camp for political prisoners located at Buchenwald on the north edge of Weimar, made by :
- Brig Gen Eric F. Wood
- Lt Col Chas H. Ott
- CWO S. M. Dye
on the morning of April 16th 1945. PW & DP Division
US Group Control Council APO 742
Annex No. To Rcn. Report of April 21st 1945
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