The End of The War and Postwar Period
Toward the end of the war was in the convent of the Brothers of Mercy a dam improvement store in which Hitler boys for the service at the front should be trained. Trott commander wanted the approaching American troops resistance and had set up tank traps. The response of Americans was clear: If even one shot fall, Reichenbach would be bombed. Then the population fled after Hochgart. Trott also fled, but was shortly afterwards by the Americans in Falkenstein arrested and shot.
When the Allied heranrückten, the concentration Flossenbürg evacuated. On the so-called death march the prisoners also came through Reichenbach. Since it was night, took some concentration camp prisoners and their last chance at the brewery dared Häring to escape. Some were immediately shot dead, a few others hid in barns.
On 24 April 1945 American troops occupied the monastery Reichenbach. For the villagers, and especially for the children who still nei a person with a different skin color had seen, the colored soldiers were a curiosity. Reichenbach the occupation by the Americans proceeded without major incidents.
Even the village of Reichenbach have housed many refugees. Just as in the First World War, during the war and afterwards only food to food cards. The villagers were able to partially self-sufficient, since almost all of a small farming operation.
1946 saw the re-establishment of the Economic Cross, and on 9 June, it was the wooden cross at the end of the eight mission of the Branch Reichenbach doomed. 1948 saw the currency reform. The village was founded in 1954 by a flood. The bridge was a rainy day is not passable.
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