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Emery Barracks Wuerzburg
The Nord-Kaserne was named Adolf-Hitler-Kaserne in 1938, which is shown by the name plate on the gate post on the other side of the entrance. Hitler's name and the accompanying swastika were chiseled off after the war. The gate post also features an Iron Cross in a shield and a relief of a medieval standard-bearer. The Reichsadler at the corner of the other gate building presumably once grasped a swastika.
The U.S. Army used this post as Emery Barracks until ca. 1995. One very special person at Emery Barracks was the librarian who came to mean so much to American GIs, here is a posting from her. When I got that job I hadn't worked since I got married so I was very nervous my first morning and if you remember when I met you (Chaplain Autry) I was taking a paper to HQ and I asked you where it was and you kindly offered to take it and off you went with it ???
As I went back in the library I got worried as I was in awe of the service club personnel and I thought , "Gosh, if he loses that paper, I am in trouble." So, like a nitwit I had to lock the library and go find HQ and make sure they had the paper. I expect they all thought, "what an idiot she is." I tell you this because it helps to know my personality. I was and still am very naive and trusting but thats what took me through four and half years at the Emery library. Each day was a joy and the boys were all friends. I never had a days trouble with any of them and no bad language. In fact, my daughter says, "you are the only librarian that never put a book on a shelf" which is true. By the end of the day, the soldiers used to tidy up and file the books away. This gave me time to talk more during the evening with them. They helped keep the library shipshape--we always sailed through IGs (Inspector General) inspections with flying colors. I tell you this as a background. Next time I will be able to say more about the library. We were nothing like the service club across the hall. The Library really was a home away from home for so many of our soldiers, many just back from Vietnam. *** Mavis
***The significance of Mavis and the Emery Barracks library can never be underestimated. Many GIs, just back from Vietnam, were often simply "shell shocked." We now call it PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). Here they had been off at war for a year and now they were in a peacetime environment where they were expected to perform peace time duties, soldier, stand in formation, and all kinds of things for which they were not emotionally prepared to do. Most crashed and burned. The military made terrible decisions in sending these young soldiers to Germany. Some had a few months to complete their obligations but were sent anyway. It is a blight on the active duty Army in my view. It was dedicated people like Mavis at the Emery Library and those fine young troops who developed commitment to the faith and established a place for GIs to retreat too such as the Coffee House. The Coffee House was the forerunner to the Jesus Movement.
The U.S. Army used this post as Emery Barracks until ca. 1995. One very special person at Emery Barracks was the librarian who came to mean so much to American GIs, here is a posting from her. When I got that job I hadn't worked since I got married so I was very nervous my first morning and if you remember when I met you (Chaplain Autry) I was taking a paper to HQ and I asked you where it was and you kindly offered to take it and off you went with it ???
As I went back in the library I got worried as I was in awe of the service club personnel and I thought , "Gosh, if he loses that paper, I am in trouble." So, like a nitwit I had to lock the library and go find HQ and make sure they had the paper. I expect they all thought, "what an idiot she is." I tell you this because it helps to know my personality. I was and still am very naive and trusting but thats what took me through four and half years at the Emery library. Each day was a joy and the boys were all friends. I never had a days trouble with any of them and no bad language. In fact, my daughter says, "you are the only librarian that never put a book on a shelf" which is true. By the end of the day, the soldiers used to tidy up and file the books away. This gave me time to talk more during the evening with them. They helped keep the library shipshape--we always sailed through IGs (Inspector General) inspections with flying colors. I tell you this as a background. Next time I will be able to say more about the library. We were nothing like the service club across the hall. The Library really was a home away from home for so many of our soldiers, many just back from Vietnam. *** Mavis
***The significance of Mavis and the Emery Barracks library can never be underestimated. Many GIs, just back from Vietnam, were often simply "shell shocked." We now call it PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). Here they had been off at war for a year and now they were in a peacetime environment where they were expected to perform peace time duties, soldier, stand in formation, and all kinds of things for which they were not emotionally prepared to do. Most crashed and burned. The military made terrible decisions in sending these young soldiers to Germany. Some had a few months to complete their obligations but were sent anyway. It is a blight on the active duty Army in my view. It was dedicated people like Mavis at the Emery Library and those fine young troops who developed commitment to the faith and established a place for GIs to retreat too such as the Coffee House. The Coffee House was the forerunner to the Jesus Movement.
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Wuerzburg is a beautiful Baroque city, the capital of Unterfranken (Lower Franconia). Although there were some military installations in the city, it was not an important target, and it largely escaped the repeated bombing that devastated many German cities. A few bombs had been dropped, and lives lost, in June 1944, and heavier bombing came in February 1945, but the destruction had not been widespread. Until, that is, 16 March 1945 ... on that night, a fleet of 280 British RAF bombers dropped some 1200 high explosive and 380,000 incendiary bombs -- 927 tons of bombs -- on Wuerzburg. The incendiaries started a firestorm in the old wooden houses that eventually consumed nearly 90 percent of the city. The total civilian casualties will never be known, but numbered at least 3000, and perhaps as many as 5000.
When the U.S. Army entered Wuerzburg on 3 April 1945, the soldiers found little more than a ruin of rubble and ashes.
Die Nord-Kaserne in Wuerzburg wurde 1938 "Adolf Hitler Kaserne" genannt, was durch das Namensschild auf dem Eingangspfosten des Eingangs gezeigt wird. Der Name Hitler und ein Hakenkreuz wurden nach dem Krieg weggemeisselt. Das Eingangstor wird gekennzeichnet durch ein Eisen-Kreuz in einem Schild und einer Einbindung einer mittelalterlichen Standard-Stuetze. Der Reichsadler an der Ecke des anderen Eingangs griff vermutlich einmal nach einem Hakenkreuz.
DIE ARME DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VOM AMERIKA
BENUTZTE DIESE KASERNE ALS EMERY BARRACKS BIS 1995..
Wuerzburg ist eine schoene barocke Stadt. Sie ist die Hauptstadt von Unterfranken. Obgleich es immer militaerische Einrichtungen in der Stadt gab, war sie nicht ein wichtiges Ziel fuer einen Angriff, und sie entging wiederholt einer grossen Bombardierung, die viele deutsche Staedte verwuestete. Einige Bomben waren dann und wann aber doch im Juni 1944 gefallen. Schwerere Bombardierungen fanden dann im Februar 1945 statt. Diese richteten keine grossen Zerstoerungen an.
Bis der 16. Maerz 1945 kam ... In dieser Nacht, liess eine Luftflotte von 280 britischen RAF Bombern ca. 1200 hochexplosive Sprengbomben und 380.000 Brandbomben -- 927 Tonnen -- auf Wuerzburg fallen. Die begannen einen Feuersturm in den alten hoelzernen Bauten, der schliesslich fast 90 Prozent der Stadt verbrannte. Die Gesamtzahl der Toten ist nicht bekannt, aber es waren mindestens 3000, und moeglicherweise sogar 5000 Menschen.
Als die US Armee Wuerzburg am 3. April 1945 betrat, fanden die Soldaten nicht mehr als eine Ruine aus Schutt und Asche.
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city archiv / stadt archiv, Wuerzburg Germany
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Barnabas Stephan
Agape Coffee House, Emery, Wuerzburg, Germany (circa 1971-74)
| Emery is a very hard rock type used to make abrasive powder. It largely consists of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide), mixed with other species such as the iron-bearing spinels hercynite and magnetite, and also rutile (titania). Industrial emery may contain a variety of other minerals and synthetic compounds such as magnesia, mullite, and silica. It is black or dark gray in colour, less dense than translucent-brown corundum with a specific gravity of between 3.5 and 3.8. Because it can be a mix of minerals, no definite Mohs hardness can be assigned: the hardness of corundum is 9 and that of some spinel-group minerals is near 8, but the hardness of others such as magnetite is near 6. |
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Wuerzburg is a beautiful Baroque city, the capital of Unterfranken (Lower Franconia). Although there were some military installations in the city, it was not an important target, and it largely escaped the repeated bombing that devastated many German cities. A few bombs had been dropped, and lives lost, in June 1944, and heavier bombing came in February 1945, but the destruction had not been widespread. Until, that is, 16 March 1945 ... on that night, a fleet of 280 British RAF bombers dropped some 1200 high explosive and 380,000 incendiary bombs -- 927 tons of bombs -- on Wuerzburg. The incendiaries started a firestorm in the old wooden houses that eventually consumed nearly 90 percent of the city. The total civilian casualties will never be known, but numbered at least 3000, and perhaps as many as 5000.
When the U.S. Army entered Wuerzburg on 3 April 1945, the soldiers found little more than a ruin of rubble and ashes.
Die Nord-Kaserne in Wuerzburg wurde 1938 "Adolf Hitler Kaserne" genannt, was durch das Namensschild auf dem Eingangspfosten des Eingangs gezeigt wird. Der Name Hitler und ein Hakenkreuz wurden nach dem Krieg weggemeisselt. Das Eingangstor wird gekennzeichnet durch ein Eisen-Kreuz in einem Schild und einer Einbindung einer mittelalterlichen Standard-Stuetze. Der Reichsadler an der Ecke des anderen Eingangs griff vermutlich einmal nach einem Hakenkreuz.
DIE ARME DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VOM AMERIKA
BENUTZTE DIESE KASERNE ALS EMERY BARRACKS BIS 1995..
Wuerzburg ist eine schoene barocke Stadt. Sie ist die Hauptstadt von Unterfranken. Obgleich es immer militaerische Einrichtungen in der Stadt gab, war sie nicht ein wichtiges Ziel fuer einen Angriff, und sie entging wiederholt einer grossen Bombardierung, die viele deutsche Staedte verwuestete. Einige Bomben waren dann und wann aber doch im Juni 1944 gefallen. Schwerere Bombardierungen fanden dann im Februar 1945 statt. Diese richteten keine grossen Zerstoerungen an.
Bis der 16. Maerz 1945 kam ... In dieser Nacht, liess eine Luftflotte von 280 britischen RAF Bombern ca. 1200 hochexplosive Sprengbomben und 380.000 Brandbomben -- 927 Tonnen -- auf Wuerzburg fallen. Die begannen einen Feuersturm in den alten hoelzernen Bauten, der schliesslich fast 90 Prozent der Stadt verbrannte. Die Gesamtzahl der Toten ist nicht bekannt, aber es waren mindestens 3000, und moeglicherweise sogar 5000 Menschen.
Als die US Armee Wuerzburg am 3. April 1945 betrat, fanden die Soldaten nicht mehr als eine Ruine aus Schutt und Asche.
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There are many things that I remember about the Agape Coffee House and its connection to Brother Barnabus; all serious but some of them so incredibly funny and a kind of "you had to be there" sort of thing. For instance, one was John's ordination. Here I was a Southern Baptist military Chaplain, the Agape Coffee House was firery to the max with evangelical Christian fervor. I use the word evangelical as opposed to fundamentalism as the Coffee House had no real rules and surely didn't subscribe to any fundamentalist dogma; it had a simple credo, let's get the story out to as many as we can about Jesus. Conversion was a big part of their existence. These guys had lost their way and then found their way, through Jesus. He became their "way." And, Barnabus was a practical arm of it. So, these guys wanted to honor Barnabus by attending his ordination. OK, here we are, headed out in the Chaplain's old VW that you could only start with a fork that had to stay in the ignition. Here's the chaplain driving, Dan Brake is in the passenger side. Two other GIs are in the back. One is this really tall guy who is crunched up like a contortionist. It had to be torture for those guys.
Somehow, we make the trip. Think about it: no seatbelts, four of us in an old VW, the autobahn, back roads. We made it. The ceremony lasted seemingly all day. We didn't speak the language, it was like an episode out of Star Wars. Talk about looking out of place. We sat in the back on the side. The Chruch was cavernous. At one point, I glanced over and one of the guys was so fast asleep that I feared he was going to fall out of his seat. You guessed it, he fell forward and slammed his head into the seat in front of him. Why it did not knock him out is beyond me. Mercefully, the service ended and we went briefly to a celerbration but finally sneaked out to find a place to stay. To be continued. You had to be there! |
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