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...last August, old passions having subsided and new political considerations having arisen, Manstein was released on medical parole for an operation on his cataracts, and was allowed afterward to return to Schloss Freyberg, his sister's 60-room castle in the Swabian village of Allmendingen...
...without military controversy beforehand. New Zealand's General Bernard Freyberg, commanding the assault troops, insisted on the bombing. His superior, U.S. General Mark Clark, resisted for a while, then reluctantly referred the matter to the theater commander, British General Sir Harold Alexander, who gave the go-ahead. Winston Churchill's later verdict: "The result was not good. The Germans now had every excuse for making whatever use they could of the rubble of the ruins, and this gave them even better opportunities for defense than when the building was intact...
...Germans were using the Abbey for military purposes. I say now that there is irrefutable evidence that no German soldier, except emissaries, was ever inside the Monastery ... It only made our job more difficult." The bombing, says Clark, was ordered only on the insistence of Lieut. General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the New Zealand Corps, that it was a military necessity. After the bombing of the Abbey and the surrounding slopes, Clark says, Freyberg's forces failed to attack quickly enough to exploit the Nazis' temporary confusion...
Into Florence. The Fifth Army had been pinned in the southern part of Pisa more than a week while the Eighth Army fought its way up to Florence in one of the hardest advances since Rome. Aggressive, gun-happy New Zealanders under Lieut. General Bernard L. Freyberg took the brunt of this fighting and made the most advances...
...accomplice in crime and I pushed our way through the crowd and grabbed Freyberg by the tails of his tunic. He turned round and, exercising his privilege as an "Old Boy," gruffly ordered us to "absquatulate," which means nothing worse than "scram." But we were inspired at having touched with our hands a real, live hero and a good Samaritan...