Zweiter Weltkrieg: Drei Frauen bewahren Neualbenreuth vor Zerstörung

Vor 75 Jahren marschierten US-Truppen in Neualbenreuth ein: Es stand Anfang Mai 1945 Spitz auf Knopf, ob die Amerikaner den Ort zerstören. Drei Frauen, darunter eine Jüdin, wendeten die Katastrophe ab.

von Martin Maier

Die beiden Bilder vom Neualbenreuther Marktplatz stammen von einer Ansichtskarte von 1939. Die Karte war an den Neualbenreuther Schuhmachermeister Christof Köstler adressiert. Dessen Sohn Rudolf Köstler war später Bürgermeister der Tillenberg-Gemeinde.

Bild: Albert Köster/exb

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