Word: coblenzers
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...thinking too. His converse idea: to take off the Allies' pressure in the Düren-Jülich sector by a full-out attack even farther south. Just past his 69th birthday but by no means a tired old man, Rundstedt was reported to be at Coblenz, where he had assembled his best tactical brains in one headquarters. To his troops he proclaimed...
Heavy bombers from Britain tried to hamstring the push by attacks on the supply railheads at Cologne, Coblenz and Mainz. While SHAEF clamped a blackout on the exact locations of the fighting, Berlin claimed major breakthroughs and progress in Luxembourg and Belgium...
...grand strategic scale, the whole Allied effort between Luxembourg and Switzerland seemed also a diversion. It forced the Germans to protect the Saar, the Moselle approach to Trier and Coblenz, and the Lorraine gate to Karlsruhe, while the heaviest blows of the new winter drive are delivered in the north...
Eventually, however, he made it. He played his horn in Paris nightclubs, joined the first jazz band ever to play in Ger. many (their audiences included brass hats in the Army of Occupation at Coblenz). Back in Paris, Hiler was manager, host, musician and barman at the famed Jockey, Left Bank hot spot owned by Jockey Milton Henry's wealthy widow. One night in her cups Proprietress Henry ejected a Negro who proved to be a Senegalese prince and member of the Chamber of Deputies. Next day the Jockey was padlocked. Hiler reopened it, invited every Negro in Paris...
...with heavy pistols and long daggers. On Place Guillaume (now Wilhelm-Platz) they lined up for instructions from Hitler's new Civil Commissioner, Gustav Simon, a two-fisted Nazi pressure-man who won his spurs fighting the League of Nations in the Saar and became Gauleiter of the Coblenz-Trier district...