Robert Drew
A Picture with Nazi Soldiers
(pinkish tinge): Nazis attending a banquet in the City Hall of Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Bavaria, Germany. Bob Drew says this scene occurred in March 1944, about a year before his division reached the town. Americans found film when they entered the town a year later, and Bobwas given the task of getting it developed. This was one of the photos recovered.
Bob wrote the message on the back when he printed the photo.
Picture of town with American tanks and soldiers This is the same town, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, a year later, on March 29, 1945, after the arrival of Bob Drew's outfit, the 3rd Army 8th Armored Division, attached to the 90th Infantry Division, all under George S. Patton. Bob was in the street at that time of this photo but the division's photographer took the picture. The sign protruding into the scene is on a gasthaus (guest house).
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