One of my college professors said his mother described the day the American's showed up at the end of WWII. The German soldiers cleared out and word spread that

One of my college professors said his mother described the day the American's showed up at the end of WWII. The German soldiers cleared out and word spread that the Americans were coming up the road. There was a sense of hopeless fear and dread. And she eventually could hear them marching down the street and unable to help herself she peeked through the curtains and saw the most sad sack disheveled soldiers walking in the rain. Fear was replaced by disbelief and then anger at having had to go through all that.