Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that week Adolf Hitler's death had been announced, Berlin had fallen after twelve days of hideous street fighting. German armies had surrendered piecemeal, at a rate that staggered the imagination: an estimated 1,000,000 troops yielded up to Field Marshal Alexander in Italy, perhaps another million to Field Marshal Montgomery in north Germany, possibly 400,000 to General Devers in Austria...
Like a householder who took his visitors for tradesmen, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery stood in the door of his motor van and demanded icily : "What do you want?" Facing him, beside a copse of silvery birches on the bleak, rolling moorland of Lüneberg Heath- where the Wehrmacht used to hold maneuvers- stood four German officers: the Commander in Chief of the German Navy, the Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht command in the north, and two members of their staffs...
Monty let them sit, another ten minutes, while he dressed for the occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...
Lieut. Colonel J. 0. ("Joe") Ewart recited in German the terms of surrender: unconditional. The wooden-faced Germans signed. At 1825 hours (6:25 p.m.) on May 4, 1945, Field Marshal Montgomery signed the paper, accepting...
...most shameful and despicable affairs," said Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, "for an officer to be taken without fighting back or offering resistance." But, he explained, he was being treated for heart disease at Bad Tölz when he was captured...