Threats Form Last Resort Of Nazis Threats Form Last Resort Of Nazis
March 30 London reports Nazi propaganda urges Germans to fight to the end or face punishment. Amid fear and chaos, mutinies and desertions rise while leaders prepare a last stand in the Bavarian Alps and Swiss refuge. Analysts note looming collapse and discuss Hitler loyalists retreating to southern Germany.
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Lake Constance
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S58
Ernst Kelstenbrunner
Heinrich Himmler
Paris
Front Dispatches
West
Wehmacht
Switzerland
Hitler
Bavarian Alps
Lausanne
Hamburg
Storms bring 40 mile wind and heavy rain to Texas towns
A spring storm rolled across South Texas early Friday delivering a 40 mph wind to San Antonio, flooding in Helotes, heavy rains to the north and east, and seven foot high water along Cibolo creek near Bulverde. Rain totals included 2.05 inches at one point with Kerrville Fredericksburg seeing up to 2.64 inches. Roads flooded, Beerville traffic halted on Guadalupe river tributaries, and Kerrville area reported up to 3-4 inches of rain while Seguin escaped major damage. Thunderstorms expected to continue Friday night and Saturday with a low around 63.
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Texas
San Antonio
Helotes
J. Hydarboe
Randolph Miele
Tarboe
Kerrville
Fredericksburg
Junction
Crystal
Frederekeburg
Seguin
Guadalupe
Beerville
Kerreville
Boerne
Emily
New Braunfels Park Opens Despite Damage Celebration Planned
New Braunfels Mayor A J Nunn announces Easter Sunday park opening with noon ceremony. The event features pool spelling, a band concert from 8 to 5 PM, and dancing in the afternoon and night. At 8 PM the fire siren tolled in tribute to the founders of New Braunfels.
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A. J. Nunn
New Braunfels Sali
New Braunfels
Invade Austria as Soviet forces push toward Vienna
Soviet Third Ukrainian army tanks breach Austrian frontier and threaten Vienna as Danube fronts surge. Moscow reports rapid advances across Slovakia and Hungary with 18 000 prisoners in two days, while German lines crumble and Bratislava rail hubs fall.
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Berlin
Danube
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Nazis Say Tanks Deciding Factor In World War II
A German radio commentator Wilfred vor Owen stated that tanks decisively influenced the outcome of the war and outstripped other terror tactics. He praised Allied tank thrusts into Germany as the most characteristic element of modern motorized warfare.
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London
INSI
Wilfred Vor
Owen
Germany
Weather forecast for San Antonio and East Texas
Mostly cloudy with thunderstorms Friday afternoon and night and Saturday. Low near 40 degrees Saturday. East Texas remains mostly cloudy and warm with scattered heavy thunderstorms Friday night and Saturday. Winds moderate to fresh along the coast.
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East Texas
Tragic flash flood near Helotes claims elderly woman
In a Bandera Road flash flood near Helotes a car was swept off the highway and submerged, trapping Madeline Lovett eighty in a vehicle as Meris Perron of Helotes escaped with the help of Melida Flores, an eighty five year old farmer. Lovett died, Perron was rescued, and Flores attempted a rescue but could not save Lovett.
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Mfrs
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Ang
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Geronimo Creek
Wea
Merls Perron
Melida Vlores
Lovett
Panama Canal Destruction Attempt Reported
La Nacion claimed an attempt to destroy the Panama Canal was disclosed by a German submarine chief named Vor Appen. The report linked shipwrecks of the Lantare and Mapocho to sabotage, noting fires aboard the Nagailand and a Chilean port fires at Tocopilin with arrests including Germans.
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Ateh Su
la Nacion
Panama
Cannl
Vor Appen
Lantare
Mapocho
Nagailand
Iquique
Jorge Garreton
Tocopilin
Nagoya Bombing by B-29s Marks Tenth Strike
The B 29s from the Marianas hit Nagoya Japan’s major aircraft plants, the city’s third. A subsequent raid targeted Singapore, a critical junction for the empire. Nagoya suffered the tenth B 29 raid and the second this month. Singapore raid was the seventh in five months.
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Washington
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Marianas
Prisoners Prove U S Fourth’s Problem
The U S Fourth armored division faced a different challenge as soldiers took prisoners in Germany near Giessen on May 30. About 500 Germans including 80 officers surrendered in one field under eight MPs, with Capt Lucien Treeclair and Lieut German Owards noting large captures.
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Germany
Muneeh
Shendhing
Pris
Reds Take Credit For U S Progress
Moscow March 30 Red army commentator Ilya Ehrenburg in Readstar lauds American speed and prowess noting Russians opened the road to the Ruhr and Nuremberg while praising Allied efforts in West Europe. He recalls earlier 1942 battles and honors Soviet and allied soldiers who fought and died.
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Westphalia
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Nasaiu
Egypt
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Berlin
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Nurenberg
Allies free British officers and three correspondents in Germany
In Montgomerys Headquarters on March 30 the Allies liberated 12 British brigadiers and three war correspondents, including Godfrey Anderson of the Associated Press, who had been captured by Germans in Africa.
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Cetan &N
Godfrey Anderson
Associated Press
Africa
Allied Armies Press Toward German Strongholds In West
Allied forces drive toward a decisive northeast Ruhr junction as First and Ninth armies push through Germany. Reports from Paris and London say German resistance collapses, with tens of thousands of Nazis surrendering and major cities such as Frankfurt and Mannheim falling. Ruhr encirclement tightens, while German defenses crumble under Allied acceleration.
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Fleavies Bombard German Ports From North Sea Raids
London report says over 1400 American heavies and 900 fighters attacked Bremen Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven to cut off sea-borne supplies to the German army. Mosquitos dropped two ton bombs on Berlin and targeted undisclosed northwest German sites. One escort fighter missing after yesterday’s bombardment on a Benzol plant near Brunswick.
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Fighte ‘Jol
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Bomber Mas 1 More Aboard After Crash
A U S bomber from England with nine crew crashed in Belgium after collision with another bomber. One dead radio operator from the other plane was found in the wreckage. Lieut Robert H. Tannenberg of Telverdead New York survived with navigator Joel R. Johnson of Alteman Texas piloting the damaged fortress toward an Allied base.
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