Dillingen an der Donau 1945-2015

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Ich lebe ganz in der Nähe von Dillingen und als ich neulich Filmmaterial über die Besetung der Stadt durch US Truppen gesehen habe sind mir gleich mehrere Gebäude aufgefallen die es heute noch gibt. Ich dachte mir dass es vielleicht interessant sein könnte einen Vergleich von damals zu heute anzustellen. Ich hoffe euch gefällt das Ergebnis. Dillingen blieb von Bombenangriffen verschont, weil die Stadt die einzige noch intakte Brücke über die Donau zwischen Ulm und Passau besaß. Die Amerikaner wollten diese unbedingt in die Hände bekommen, um weiter Richtung Alpenraum vorrücken zu können. My home is very close to the city of Dillingen, so when i saw some footage taken by US troops during the occupation of the place in 1945 i recognized a lot of the buildings immediately. I felt that it would be interesting to make a comparison between now and then. I hope you like the result (please activate the English subtitles to read the inscription on the memorial). Dillingen was not bombed during the war, because there was the last intact bridge over the Danube between Ulm and Passau. The Allies wanted to occupy this bridge intact to make the advance towards the Alps easier. Dillingen, or Dillingen an der Donau (Dillingen on the Danube) is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative center of the district of Dillingen. Besides the town of Dillingen proper, the municipality encompasses the villages of Donaualtheim, Fristingen, Hausen, Kicklingen, Schretzheim and Steinheim. Schretzheim is notable for its 6th to 7th century Alemannic cemetery, 630 row graves in an area of 100 by 140 metres. The counts of Dillingen ruled from the 10th to the 13th century; in 1258 the territory was turned over to the Prince Bishops of Augsburg. After the Reformation, the prince-bishops of Augsburg moved to the Catholic city of Dillingen and made it one of the centers of the Counter-Reformation. In 1800, during the War of the Second Coalition, the armies of the French First Republic, under command of Jean Victor Moreau, fought Habsburg regulars and Württemberg contingents, under the general command of Pál Kray. Kray had taken refuge in the fortress at Ulm; Moreau diverted his army to approach Ulm from the east and, after a small group of men captured a foothold on the northern bank of the Danube, his forces were able to move against the fortress on both sides of the river. At this battle, the culmination of the Danube Campaign of 1800, Moreau forced Kray to abandon Ulm and withdraw into eastern Bavaria. A university was established in 1549, but was closed by Napoleon in 1804. The philosophical and theological faculties still existed in the 20th century. In 1971, however, it became a part of the Bavarian Center for the Education and Training of Teachers and Personnel Management (Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung). One of the largest employers in the city is Bosch and Siemens Household Appliances, producer of household applicances. (Wikipedia) I do not own the rights for the black and white footage and the music in this video. Music: "Hoffnung am Ende der Welt" from the movie "The Downfall".