The Ministerial Collecting Center Near Kassel, Germany

Abstract

T HE rain was pouring down.The hour was 0630.The day was Monday, 12 June 1945.The place was Hochst, Germany, headquarters of the US Group Control Council.A lone figure, bundled up in hooded officers' fieldcoat, with musette bag slung over shoulder, and with pistol and extra clip of ammunition fastened at the waist sloshed down the street.This was the only Archivist then on the regular Table of Organization (T/O) of US Gp CC.At the appointed rendezvous other bedraggled figures appeared.Trucks arrived.The Archivist and other officers climbed up beside drivers of 2^ ton trucks, and the little convoy started up the Autobahn from Frankfurt to Kassel.This was the Advance Party sent to open the Ministerial Collecting Center.The MCC was a unique venture in modern warfare.Its tale is worth the telling.

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