Word: berlin
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While living in Berlin, he assumed the name ofVictor Grossman, an alias given to him by theSoviets. Wechsler remained relatively isolated inEast Berlin, where he lived with his wife, ahalf-German, half-Serb named Renate, and twochildren...
Marc Fisher, a reporter for The Washington Postwho met Wechsler in Berlin in 1989 while coveringthe fall of the Berlin Wall, says he feels it is"very exciting" and "very heart-warming" to seeWechsler fulfill his wish to return to the UnitedStates...
...said. He was determined to avoid handing over command of the Allied ground forces to Eisenhower, as planned, on Sept. 1. In a direct challenge, he told Eisenhower that "to change command now would be to prolong the war." He was convinced that "one really full-blooded thrust toward Berlin is likely to get there and end the German...
...slow but successful tracking of Rommel across North Africa or his long pause in front of Caen. Nor could Eisenhower have shut down the hard-charging U.S. First and Third Armies to let the senior British general on the Continent claim sole credit for taking Berlin...
...force Montgomery's ouster, but he feared such an intramural brawl would severely damage U.S.-British trust. After the war, Montgomery's own chief of staff, De Guingand, looked back at the heavy fighting in Germany during 1945 and decided that the British could not have made it to Berlin, even with U.S. reinforcements. "My conclusion," he wrote, "is that Eisenhower was right...