April 29th falls on a Saturday this year. In 1945, April 29th was a Sunday. I do not have to look that up because it was a date I remember well. This was the day that the first element of George Patton’s 14th Armored Division reached Moosburg, Germany, releasing about 75,000 Allied POWs from Stalag VIIA. I was one of the POWs.
Early that morning of the 29th, a group of several men approached the Am…