Word: elster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Allied breakout from Nor mandy, the Ninth's first action was a swing into Brittany, while the First and Third wheeled left to liberate northern France. Later the Ninth accepted the surrender of Major General Erich Elster, Nazi commandant of southwestern France, with 20,000 enemy troops. After it captured Brest, the Ninth disappeared from the public eye, and apparently from the German eye as well, until it slammed into action north of Aachen. In the grinding progress toward the Roer, it got its first solid battle experience...
Bonanza. Far, far back of the Siegfried Line, back on the Loire near Orleans, the Americans collected still another dividend from their bold strokes. It was a bonanza for a storybook. There 20,000 Germans were handed over to U.S. troops as stubby Major General Erich Elster, bemedaled and sticking to the Prussian amenities, flourished his pistol in surrender. His big force was the remainder of a German army that had held the Bordeaux-Biscay area. Cut off hundreds of miles behind the Allied lines, harried by Maquis, raked by aircraft on the roads, they had laboriously marched...
...troops to whom Elster surrendered belonged to the U.S. Ninth Army headed by tall, hell-for-leather Lieut. General William H. Simpson. Newly arrived in France, this is the seventh army* to appear under Eisenhower's command. It swelled the U.S. ranks in western Europe to far more than the 2,000,000 men whom General John J. Pershing commanded...
Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...
Osloans, now beginning to get their backs up, could and did resist self-appointed Premier Quisling. Failing to get cooperation from the people, Quisling gave way last week to a new puppet regime, headed by 68-year-old Infgolf Elster Christensen, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, since 1929 Governor of Oslo District. Blessed by the Norwegian Supreme Court, this regime was described by Berlin as the legally constituted Government of Norway. Aside from the ubiquitous Quisling, who was put in charge of demobilization, nearly all members of the interim Government were local Government officials and businessmen...