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...addition to the movement of Poles westward into Germany, which the Western Allies had sanctioned, large blocks of the German population were being driven eastward to Russia. The Lublin radio broadcast that 7,500,000 Poles were to be moved into Poland's area of the old "eastern Germany...
...awful was their agony that they paid scant attention to the angry prongs of barbed wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...
...Jima. On this island, 60 miles long and two to 20 miles wide, there was room to land and maneuver. Jap opposition on the beach was almost nonexistent. Quickly the troops moved inland through a maze of tiny one-and two-acre farms. They spread north and south, pushed eastward. Still resistance remained slight. Some men marched a mile without hearing a shot...
...Allies were not merely waiting for that trap to spring. American and British tank columns cut eastward along Adolf Hitler's wide superhighways with overwhelming power. The farthest advanced Americans were only 198 miles from the nearest Russians. What was left to the Germans for the defense of Berlin, of Leipzig and Munich was a beaten, confused, retreating mass that could turn to fight only in knots of resistance. The last hope of the Nazi command seemed to be only this : abandon the north-south defense of Germany as speedily as possible and pivot to hold the southern bastion...
Strikes & Pauses. Patton has had much success in fooling Germans. Few U.S. generals know the German military mind as well. Patton has studied Germans diligently from Africa northward, from Normandy eastward. When Patton moves swiftly, as in the Rhine crossing, it is because he knows the Germans expect him to pause. When he pauses, it is most likely because he knows the Germans are set for him to strike...