Word: colmar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced by this sudden threat to its rear, the Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...
...Strasbourg and its vicinity had been cleared of corpses and ruins. Captain Ross found the hiding place of one of the world's greatest medieval paintings, the Isenheim Altar Screen by Matthias Grünewald. The treasure was stored in a vaulted room in Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, near Colmar, Alsace, 40 miles from Strasbourg...
...newald Altar Screen was important enough to be mentioned in the Versailles Treaty: the Germans tried to keep it in Munich after the war, but the peacemakers of 1919 ordered its return to Alsace. Between wars, it was kept in the Colmar Museum. Last week, when the bare facts of Captain Ross's discovery first became known, nobody knew or even tried to guess why the Nazis left such a treasure behind when they were being pushed out of Alsace...
Left Hook. On the eighth day Delattre's Sherman tanks raced past the 78-ft.-long red granite Lion of Belfort (symbolic of its unyielding French defense in 1870-71). They speared into Mulhouse, turned north toward Colmar along the Rhine...
...this time, the enemy was maneuvered out of position. He sent some 3,000 reinforcements south to counterattack near Colmar, thus let down his right guard. Jake Devers let go a stiff punch. On back trails through the Saverne Gap he sent Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc's* French armored division driving toward Strasbourg. The Germans, apparently expecting that any advance would be along the gap's one main road, again found themselves bypassed, surrounded in pockets. Leclerc's tanks brushed through a shell of resistance, reached Alsace's capital (where children cheered them in German...