The Germans had not mounted any defense at allon the east bank of the Seine, but that left the Meuse, Moselle, Roser , Saar, Waal, and RhineRiversandtheirtributaries to go.
In 2011, 45, 000 residents were evacuated from the city of Koblenz, situated on the Rhine and Moselle rivers, as bomb squads dealt with two bombs and a military fog-producing device that were dropped by American and British warplanes in the last years of the war.