His son, Lieutenant Karl Heinz Timmermann, had a big score to settle with the U.S.

After four more years as a fugitive from military justice, the elder Timmermann finally received a less than honorable discharge in 1928. Army of Occupation in Germany, who married a German girl and then managed to slip back into the United States with his young family in January 1924. Timmermann, had been a deserter from the post-World War I U.S. Compounding the irony, Timmermann’s father, John H. Army 2d Lieutenant Timmermann was the leader of the assault on the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, and he was the first American officer to fight his way across the Rhine River and into the heart of the land of his birth. As the commander of Company A, 27th Armored Infantry Battalion, 9th Armored Division, U.S. But Karl Heinz was not wearing German army Feldgrau. Just short of 23 years later, he was an infantry officer fighting in the fierce final stages of the military collapse of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s German Reich. Karl Heinz Timmermann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 19, 1922. Remagen: Bridge to Victory | HistoryNet CloseĪmerican GIs seized a bridge over the Rhine River to “kick in the door” to the Reich, paving the way for the final downfall of Nazi Germany.

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