To: gr8eman
This map would say your wrong. Deep red was German controlled on VE Day, pink to orange is allied controlled. Gray is neutral. White is abandoned or partisan controlled. Not much red on the map, but Stuttgart is included as well as parts of Munich. Map is dated May 1, 1945, when the rump Flensberg based government agreed to cease hostilities, though the unconditional surrender wasn't signed until a week late.
So, entirely possible that the area you described was conquered in that week. Though it was moot by that point.
56 posted on
02/03/2022 12:49:01 PM PST by
Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman
Sorry, Mr. Vigilanteman, but a few bits in your map might not be correct.
You see, Stuttgart had been taken on the 22nd of April by the Free French forces, while the Americans took the eastern suburbs in the same days.
However, as Stuttgart was supposed to be in the US zone of occupation, the French ceded it to the US army on the 5th of July.
The final line of demarcation between both zones was, however, really formed by the present-day Autobahn 8.
61 posted on
02/03/2022 1:00:44 PM PST by
Menes
To: Vigilanteman
Interesting,,,speaking of moot points...I know this old German guy who describes how when he was a teenager, the SS came to his village and were looking for kids to fight to stop the allied advance from the west. He and a lot of others hid out in the hills (Odenwald) and resisted the fanatic freaks. Would be nice to have a map of those!
77 posted on
02/03/2022 8:43:12 PM PST by
gr8eman
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