Leipzig museum about American occupation

Doubt if Leipzig would have anything regarding a 2 month "occupation".
Pilsen had an exhibit of photographs at the Synagogue of the American liberation and subsequent celebration, which was quickly suppressed by the Soviets after they took over. Also included were photos from the 2 Czech Airforce squadrons that stayed on in the UK. That was over the summer. Don't know if it is still current.

Rob, actually it was a trade off. If US and British would have not withdrawn from those areas Russians would have held whole Berlin. I think that to get West Berlin was more important than to keep those areas around Leipzig, Magdeburg, etc. I don't know about any museum about this short lived occupation and I doubt that they exist.

Actually when I was at the Runde Ecke Museum (main exhibit covering the Stasi) in September they had a temporary exhibition on precisely this subject. I don't know if it's still on.

Other than Checkpoint Charlie, the only museum of which I am aware that covers any subject matter concerning the US occupation and long-standing troop presence in Germany is a preserved observation post, Point Alpha, on the old inter-German border between Hessen and Thüringen. The subject matter, however, is the Cold War, not WWII. Perhaps the museums on the remaining US bases have some exhibits dealing with the occupation, but these are generally not open to the traveling public.

Other than the somber memorials to fallen soldiers and victims of fascism, Germany is not keen to commemorate anything having to do with WWII, and the western allies, for the most part, refrained from erecting monuments to themselves. The Soviets, though, weren't so humble...

It's also worth noting that the Soviets would have cleared every possible reminder of the temporary US presence by the time the Cold War set in.

Thanks for replies, good to know there was a temporary exhibit at least. I'm fascinated by the more obscurer parts of history, and this I suppose qualifies as one.

HI,

Geographically, I have another place in mind where the liberation of the city by US troops is mentioned...Munich (not really what you're asking about). Historically, if you want to see something praising the US liberation of a major German city, this plaque attests to that. The long horizontal plaque written only in German is at Marienplatz through the corridor coming from Stachus on the left hand side going into a courtyard. People ie, tourists go back and forth through this corridor without even stopping to look at this plaque on the wall, let alone take a picture of it. If you want to go another German city where there is a plaque memorial to the German Army, that also can be seen.

@ rob in cal....You can go to see that US memorial plaque in Pilsen. It's called the American Monument, thanking the troops of Patton for the liberation of the city, where they were under orders not advance further than the Linz-Pilsen line. It can be walked to from the Pilsen train station, towards the center. I saw it as a day trip from Nürnberg in 2001.

The Allierten Museum in Berlin, which is in a former US military camp cinema, covers the role of the Western Allies in Germany after WWII and during the Cold War, but I don't know if it covers the specific period you're asking about.