Word: chler
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Army (all of whom swept into Belgium on the night of Germany's invasion of the Low Countries) were pocketed together with the remainder of the Belgian Army-500,000 French, 200,000 British, 400,000 Belgians and a few thousand Dutch. The German Army of Küchler had driven them back from the Albert Canal. The German Army of Reichenau had pounded through the Ardennes Forest and across the Meuse (see map). At Neufchâteau and Sedan the French IX Army (under incapable General André Corap) had been cracked, crushed, scattered...
...havoc with Allied communications along the seacoast. Behind them German infantry and artillery divisions dropped off to strengthen the sides of the corridor. Already Reichenau (who was at the centre in Poland and performed the final closing of the bloody envelopment of Kutno) was driving on Lille. Küchler (who commanded the German left in the Polish massacre) was pressing through Ghent...
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