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The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum
There is a new museum in the works
and it has a powerful message to convey.
The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum tells the story of the
battles, the Holocaust, and the expeiences of members of the infamous
Patton "Mystery Division". |
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Patton's 3rd Army Drives to the Rhine
On March 21, 1945, the "Mystery
Division" of General Patton's 3rd Army took the spotlight
by reaching the Upper Rhine, entering the important chemical city
of Ludwigshafen,Germany. Thousands of prisoners and pieces of
enemy equipment were captured. The Germans had been succesfully
pushed back. |
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12th Armored Division Liberates Death Camps
In the latter days of April 1945,
Hellcats of the 12th Armored Division had crossed the Danube River
and were moving rapidly south when they encountered subsidiary
death camps of the notorious Dachau concentration camp in the
vicinity of Landsberg, Germany. Little is written about the liberation
of eleven of these camps or the 12th Armored Division's part in
their liberation. The 12th Armored Division liberated eleven prison
camps containing Allied POWs, political prisoners and Jews, anyone
who disagreed with Nazi philosophy. |
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