Duisburg after capture.
Duisburg after capture. Overturned barges fill a canal of battered Duisburg, Germany, largest inland port in Europe, which was entered by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army March 27, 1945. Duisburg, on the juncture of the Rhine and the Ruhr, utilized thousands of miles of waterways leading to the North Sea and can handle barges of 1,000 tons and ocean-going vessels of 15,000 tons. The center of Ruhr heavy ...
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NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
