Dec 19, 2021
Photo: Stadtarchiv Rheinbach
On March 6, 1945, these soldiers with Red Cross signs on their helmets drove a jeep across Münstereifeler Strasse into Rheinbach, which was 60% destroyed. The 2nd Battalion of the 310th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army arrived early in the morning of March 6th via Essig and Oberdrees. As a last crime, the henchmen of the Nazi regime burned down the town hall in the former building "Vor dem Voigtstor 23" on March 7, 1945, and with it the written estate of the city with all files and the archive.
