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In the Army's records, it was listed as the Loire Detention Training Center at Le Mans, but in the memories of G.I.s the institution (100 miles southwest of Paris) was the "Continental Stockade." Whether they had suffered its rigors while confined for offenses against military law, or whether...
*Tsingtao has good claims to being the fastest growing city in China. In 1898, when the Ger mans grabbed it, it was an insignificant fishing village; today its 800,000 population is well housed in structures which sprawl over the hills above the best natural harbor in China. Scenically it...
¶In Silesia, the Sudetenland, East Prussia and Pomerania, surly, stony-eyed Ger mans hid their belongings against the day when they would have to move. Some would go east, to Russia and forced labor. The lucky ones would go west, to a new and humbler life.
As to the debate on how close the Ger mans came to reversing the tide of war in the Ardennes breakthrough, General Ike said flatly: the professional German soldiers knew the jig was up on the third day of the breakthrough. On that day von Rundstedt found out "he could...
The Roer valley is the natural platform for an attack on the Ruhr, now all the more precious to Germany since industrial Silesia has been invaded by the Russians. From the Roer Eisenhower had been preparing to attack in December when Rundstedt's blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing...