German Girls in Captured Town, Rittersdorf, Germany

Identifier:

041160

Collection Number:

A&M 3904

Title:

German Girls in Captured Town, Rittersdorf, Germany

Date:

ca. 1945

Description:

Information included on back: "Two young women of captured Rittersdorf, Germany, step over an abandoned Nazi rifle as they carry water in the Reich town, seized by troops of the Third U.S. Army February 26, 1945. The town was cleared by American soldiers driving to Bitburg, last important German road center west of the Rhine in the Third Army battle sector."

Subjects:

World War II.

Acquisition Source:

Webb, Barry H.

Acquisition Method:

Acquired

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView