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Pressure in the South. Far to the south, Major General Jean Joseph Gabriel Delattre de Tassigny's French First Army (including American divisions), closed a pincers, cutting the Colmar pocket in two. Of some 10,000 Germans, all that were left of the 25,000 originally in the pocket, many were locked in the circle, others were pinned against the Rhine, whose bridges were being hammered by Allied planes. Allied troops entered Colmar...
While the Germans were trying to take Strasbourg, they were in a fair way to lose Colmar. Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny, who last fortnight attacked the Colmar pocket on the south, last week began to squeeze it on both sides. With Tassigny's French First Army was a crack U.S. infantry division, which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village...
From the big Colmar pocket south of Strasbourg, the Germans had already probed within ten miles of the city. Thus, in their 19-mile strip of the Rhine's west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...
...German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket, drove to within ten miles of Strasbourg. Considering the relatively small forces involved, Strasbourg's recapture would be a juicy political plum for the Nazis...
...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...