Word: bavaria
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...April, when the Third Army swept southeast through Bavaria, and the Allies squeezed Germany in two, they got part of their wish. The armies moved too fast for the planners in Washington. The cutbacks came in a downpour; in two weeks the Army ended a $200,000,000 ammunition program, dropped plans to build twelve tank plants, announced that Willow Run would close...
...second time he lost a command was last October, when "Ike" Eisenhower yanked him out of the Third Army command which had made him Military Governor of Bavaria; he had belittled the differences between Nazis and anti-Nazis, likening them to those between Republicans and Democrats. He got the Fifteenth, a paper Army doing paper work, compiling a history of European campaigns...
Misery's Nurses. The face of UNRRA in the displaced persons camps of Upper Bavaria was a smiling, 36-year-old Bronx Negro, Ernest C. Grigg, veteran of city and federal social-service agencies. He had won the confidence of these strange latter-day slaves, some of whom still resisted moving into larger camp quarters, preferring to crowd together in their old, small barracks for protection against the nightmares Hitler had left them. Grigg and his aides were slowly preparing them for a return to the world...
Other factors helped. Since the dismissal of General George S. Patton in Bavaria, U.S. authorities had greatly speeded up denazification. They had also moved to increase German participation in German rule, a step which the Russians considered intelligent. Soon all local and county government would be in German hands, under strict U.S. supervision. The Russians were still way ahead in the revival of German political life, but the Americans were catching...
...just go into a country and tear out every vestige of established Government and administration and expect to get the job done quickly and efficiently. I was in both Bavaria and Austria, and I know. You have to use some of the old team for your own purposes until you can get your team functioning. In addition to that, our Military Government teams, in spite of all their publicity, were nothing to write home about...