Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-green legions that once ruled Europe were now slack and disorganized in defeat-a soft, mushy mass of an army with only a few muscles of resistance. Cut in two by a U.S.-Russian meeting (see below), the Wehrmacht was all but cut into thirds and sixths. Bremen and Munich fell. The threat of a formidable national redoubt in the Alps was fast fading, and with it, the last German hope of delay...
Behind these armored needles lacing up the German shroud, the Allies tidied and mopped up. Regensburg, the Ratisbon where Napoleon won a battle and a wound in the heel; Augsburg, 95 miles from the Brenner Pass; Bremen in the north, Germany's second largest seaport, all fell within the week...
General Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadians were closing on Emden and Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British shelled Bremen and Hamburg at close range. The German Navy, however, did not fight. The admiral commanding the German North Sea naval district headquarters at Buxtehude surrendered to Dempsey's 11th Armored Division, which captured 500 women auxiliaries, in bell-bottomed trousers and coats of navy blue. The 11th also captured a circus, fully "operational" except for two wounded bears...
Polish troops were almost within sight of Emden. At the bottom of the sack, west of Bremen, the British Second Army ran into what Allied airmen had once called "Flak Alley." Now the massive concentration of antiaircraft guns was leveled to sweep the roads. Few gun crews gave up until all their shells were fired...
Lord Haw-Haw (British Traitor William Joyce) suddenly went off the air after nearly six years of blaring Nazi propaganda at Britain. Reason: his station shut up when the British Seventh Armored Division entered Bremen's suburbs...