Word: leipzig
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...week's end the Ninth and First had come up to the Elbe at several points along a 150-mile stretch fronting Berlin. The First had bypassed Leipzig. The Third's left wing was in the Chemnitz-Dresden area, and its right had captured the Wagner-festival city of Bayreuth...
...Leipzig, it was a different story. Civilians, including "werewolf" boys of 14 and 15, fought with the German soldiers. The boys broke and ran when fired on by tanks; but it took the Americans 48 hours to mop up the outskirts. At week's end they were still faced by Leipzig's powerful batteries of antiaircraft guns...
...capital, speeding toward the Elbe. As they had cut off the Ruhr, Lieut. Generals Simpson and Hodges were now in position to form another trap, with Berlin as its center. Lieut. General Patton's tankmen were apparently going to face a cohesive enemy on the roads to Leipzig...
...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 of the Bavarian...
Where General Patton might be in the next three hours he himself did not know. If Patton got a hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...