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George S. Patton's Third Army rolled along the Danube through Austria toward a junction with Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. Together they would cut Czechoslovakia from Austria, tear the entire side out of the mountain fortress the Germans hoped to hold. The British crossed the Elbe near Hamburg in the north for a drive toward Lübeck. The U.S. Ninth and the U.S. First, southwest of Berlin, broke out for more linkups with Russian troops...
...stench of Buchenwald would reek in history. But how much of it was known to German civilians even in nearby Weimar? Sick with disgust, tough General George S. Patton ordered the burghers of the town to be taken through Buchenwald and shown its obscenities. Twelve hundred men & women of Weimar walked unwillingly through the camp and wept, retched, fainted. A young Hitler Madchen sobbed: "How awful...
Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton had put in a busy day. They had inspected the horrid concentration camp at Ohrdruf, visited the salt mine with its hoard of gold and art, traveled several hundred miles by plane and jeep. When they returned to General Patton's headquarters they were tired-and a little sick from the things they had seen at Ohrdruf. They dined, then sat in a big, sparsely furnished room, talking against the steady roar of supply trucks passing outside. Around midnight they went to bed. Eisenhower and Bradley took two bedrooms upstairs. Patton's heavy boots...
...General Patton undressed and was about to get into bed when he noticed that his watch had stopped. He turned on his radio, spun the dial to BBC and an instant later heard a voice, un-British with emotion, say: "We regret to announce that the President of the United States has died." A precise man, the General waited exactly two minutes to get the time. Then he set his watch at 12:15, put on a bathrobe and slippers, and walked back to the house...
General Bradley had just fallen asleep when the light woke him. Patton was standing in the doorway. He beckoned. Bradley and Patton went into Eisenhower's room and the three men talked for more than an hour. Sometimes it was hard for them to hear each other because the trucks still roared by outside...