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...First and Ninth Armies joined hands at Lippstadt (TIME, April 9), the Germans in the Ruhr were cut off in a pocket about 200 miles around, anchored on the Rhine from Bonn to Duisburg. Trapped inside were elements of the German Fifteenth, First Parachute and Fifth Panzer Armies-120,000 to 125,000 troops...
...they began a great campaign of interdiction-sealing off the battle area bounded by the Seine and the Loire. Arnold tells how successfully they carried out that mission. It took an SS Panzer division ten days to get from the Ghent area to the front lines over the tortured, twisted wreckage left by the bombers. It took another Panzer division 19 days to move from central Galicia to the front...
...Germans, on the other hand, were weaker. They probably had less than 70 understrength divisions left in the west. At least twelve armored divisions had been whisked away. Some units of the Sixth Panzer Army, which had spearheaded the Ardennes drive, were already identified on the eastern front...
...this area at this stage of the war. One ingenious explanation, offered by some U.S. Seventh Army officers, was that Nazi General Hermann Balck had hastily committed his best units to action in order to keep the German High Command from taking them away. Balck had two or more Panzer or Panzer grenadier divisions, one of mountain troops from Norway, one of SS infantry, one of paratroops-a parcel of the Wehrmacht's best...
...German calendars. In the U.S. on the page for each month we usually put a 'Varga Girl' or maybe rural scenes, or advertisements. On all the German calendars are beautiful color pictures of the German Army in action or in training: such thrilling scenes as a German Panzer unit crushing and running down a group of British Tommies who are shown screaming and clutching their stomachs as they are machine-gunned to death. Or perhaps it is a German Pionier Gruppe assaulting a Russian pillbox with flamethrowers and dynamite...