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5,400+ captured. The Battle of Kassel was a four-day struggle between the U.S. Army and the German Army in April 1945 for Kassel, a medium-sized city 140 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt am Main, which also is the second-largest city in Hesse (after Frankfurt). The battle resulted as the U.S.
- 1–4 April 1945
- American victory
Kassel, Germany. First mentioned in 913 as Chassala (Chassela), the town derived its name, usually spelled Casle in the late European Middle Ages, from the Latin-Franconian castella (“stronghold”).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Marburger Succession Conflict between Kassel and Darmstadt is a result of Kassel claiming back both Rheinfels and Marburg (the latter in 1604). An ally of Sweden during the Thirty Years' War , Hessen-Kassel fights some of its bitterest battles in the final four years of the war against Hessen-Darmstadt.
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Jun 9, 2009 · Twenty years ago, the city of Kassel suddenly found itself right in the center of it all. The Berlin wall had fallen and Kassel, having been forced onto the outskirts of the Federal Republic of Germany for decades, over night became German heartland, center city, in the middle of the map.
The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Kassel at the beginning of April 1945. The US 80th Infantry Division captured Kassel in bitter house-to-house fighting during 1–4 April 1945, which included numerous German panzer-grenadier counterattacks, and resulted in further widespread devastation to bombed and unbombed structures alike.
Nov 16, 2023 · A short history of Kassel. Kassel started off in the 10th century as a fortified settlement called Chassella near the bridge across the Fulda river, documents first mention the settlement in 913. The fast-growing town was awarded city rights within the next two centuries, and surviving monuments such as the Brüderkirche, Martinskirche ...
