Selected Events 2005

U.S. Veterans Visit Leipzig

April 21 - 22, 2005.
The visit of U.S. veterans to the Leipzig Consulate General district brought back memories all around. While the detailed accounts of veterans Joe Lipsius and Edgar Parsons left a deep impression on the students of the Kant Gymnasium and the Berufsschulzentrum 6, the veterans’ tour of the liberation exhibit at Leipzig's City Museum held some emotional moments of its own with Joe Lipsius detecting himself on the photograph of the city’s surrender and another veteran meeting his war-time sweetheart. In the evening, Lord Mayor Wolfgang Tiefensee hosted the veterans for dinner and took part in a discussion at the Leipzig city museum of U.S and German witnesses to the final days of the war.

	Mr. Lipsius (right), U.S. Veteran, at the Immanuel-Kant High School, Leipzig. Mr. Engel, English Teacher (left)	Joseph Lipsius, a WW II Veteran, Discusses with Students at the Immanuel-Kant High School, Leipzig	In Front of the City Museum Leipzig: Mr. Edgar Parsons, a WW II Veteran from the U.S.; Dr. Volker Rodekamp, Director of the City Museum Leipzig; German Prisoner-of-War (from left)

	Mr. Edgar Parsons, WW II Veteran; Dr. Volker Rodekamp, Director of the City Museum Leipzig; German Prisoner-of-War; Local TV Team (from left)	Mr. Kaufmann, City Museum Leipzig; Joseph Lipsius, WW II Veteran; Geertje Huendorf, Consulate General Leipzig, Information Resource Center	U.S. Veteran Meets His War-time Sweetheart
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