Word: monschau
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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General Hodges of the First Army struck the match. He attacked at Monschau, 20 miles southwest of Düren, where he was already across the Roer headwaters in the hills. Since this area is walled off from the Düren sector by the Hürtgen Forest and other difficult terrain, it did not seem that Hodges was attempting to roll up the German line, but to draw German strength from the north, thus reduce the enemy pressure at Düren and Jülich...
Rundstedt also attacked, drove desperately and skillfully at Monschau, at the northeast corner of Luxembourg, and at two points farther south, not far from the Moselle. First Army headquarters declared that some penetrations were "sealed off" (a familiar cliché in German communiques), but the enemy slid away from the seal-offs, advanced alongside. Prisoners, of whom the First seized more than a thousand the first day, said they had been told they would be "in Paris by Christmas.'' Some Germans were so inflamed with savagery by the switch from retreat to attack that they murdered U.S. prisoners...