ABSTRACT
OCCUPIED GERMANY The Allies might well have lost the war but for Hitler’s megalomania with his 1940 invasion of Russia, which meant that his Germany had battle fronts on its both east and west. To his surprise, Russians withstood the bitter siege of Stalingrad, and then the Red Army spent the next two years battling the Nazis back to Berlin. United Press correspondent Ann Stringer was the fi rst to report that Russian troops had crossed the Elbe; Berlin fell a week later; and Germany formally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Lyn Crost, Lee Miller, Patricia Lockridge, and famed Margaret BourkeWhite were other reporters who reached Germany while evidence of genocide still was fresh. In “An Army Nurse at Dachau,” Ann Franklin joined other women who witnessed to the world of barely alive concentration camp survivors and of piles of human beings treated as trash.
