Böhm, Adolf/Ebert, Wolfgang Grenzfluss Mulde

Kriegsende 1945 in Nordsachsen

In April 1945, World War II spread to Saxony. American forces advanced from the Weser region toward Leipzig, initially bypassing its outer defensive ring in a pincer movement toward the Mulde River, while the Russians crossed the Neisse River in heavy fighting and advanced toward the Elbe. Grenzfluss Mulde (The Mulde River Border) like no other term, this book title stands for the end of the war in April/May 1945 in northern Saxony, for the entire dramatic sequence of events involving the advancing Allied fronts and the final battles of German troops and Volkssturm units, for American patrols to the Elbe and the first encounters with Russian assault troops, for air raid sirens, tank barriers and bridge demolitions, from bombings such as that of Eilenburg, which was reduced to rubble and ashes, and courageous surrenders without a fight, such as in Wurzen, of the dissolution of German combat units and the congestion of refugee flows at the Allied demarcation line Mulde, which became the Jordan, of the death march of concentration camp prisoners, of reserve military hospitals, liberated forced laborers, daily rations, looting... Contemporary witnesses and eyewitnesses, diaries that have been passed down to us, and the research of later generations report on how all this was experienced and what feelings the victors and losers of that time had.