On May 5, 1945, Lieutenant-General Alexander "Sandy" Patch, Jr. (Commander of the 7th United States Army) met with Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, a former Oberbefehlshaber West, who was captured by American troops from the 36th Infantry Division along with his son, Lieutenant Hans von Rundstedt, in Bad Tölz (Bavaria) on May 1, 1945.
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LikeThis photograph was taken at the 7th Army headquarters in Augsburg which is still part of Bavaria, Germany. Just a few days later, exactly on May 7, 1945, Patch's forces caught a larger "fish", namely Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the second man in the Nazi hierarchy after Adolf Hitler!
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