Remagen
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Remagen is a town in Germany in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and district of Ahrweiler. It is about a one-hour drive from Cologne, just south of Bonn, the former West German seat of government,
Apollinariskirche
Remagen commemorative plaque.
A U.S. soldier keeping guard over German soldiers, war-prisoners in Remagen
Rheinwiesenlager
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The Rheinwiesenlager were a group of 19 camps built in the Allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the close of the Second World War. Officially named Pris
Remagen
…at this point along the Rhine would spoil the view. In 1945, the U.S. built one of the many enclosures on the west bank of the Rhine—the so-called Rheinwiesenlager—close to Remagen. The camps were used by the Allies to house captured German soldiers. Several thousand prisoners are estimated to have died in the…
The exposed conditions within Sinzig POW camp, 16 May 1945.