Word: dusseldorf
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...doughty old Briton had chalked "For Hitler-Personal" on a 360-lb. shell, then yanked a howitzer's lanyard to fire it over the lines. He had vainly tried to persuade a U.S. commander to let him ride a tank up to the Rhine across from enemy-held Dusseldorf. And he had observed that "one good strong heave" by all the Allies might bring...
...were virtually committed to fight the last western battle in front of the Rhine. His reasoning: Allied air power can destroy the river bridges behind them at any time. The steep-banked, swift-running Rhine is higher now than at any time except in early summer. Between Cologne and Dusseldorf the river is 380 yds. wide. To get back across it with the bridges down would be, for the Germans, "almost a naval operation." The Germans know this, but they are still sending reinforcements westward across the Rhine...
...even if that breakthrough is achieved, the First will not yet have an other Saint-LÔ. The West Wall break will have to be vastly widened before tanks can be rocketed through to burst out toward Cologne and Dusseldorf, Ike Eisenhower may have to achieve other breaks or fight around the northern flank on to the north German plain before he can break his tanks loose. For the time. Hodges' First was in the best position to bring about that situation. But only history would tell whether the First's drive in the Aachen sector would...
...rate of 15 to 30% each month. The day after General Eaker spoke, the lull ended. More than 200 U.S. heavy bombers soared out over Germany to attack Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven. That same night the R.A.F. sent out its greatest force of four-motored bombers to blast Dusseldorf and Munster with four-ton blockbusters and incendiaries...
Thyssen became well acquainted with Hitler, but not intimate. Once Hitler, Hess and the malodorous Captain Roehm slept at Thyssen's father's house. In 1932 Thyssen brought Hitler to address the Industry Club of Dusseldorf. The assembled magnates were impressed when Hitler pontificated: "The economic parallel of political democracy is Communism...