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Volkssturm members captured at Metz, some in regular army uniforms and others in civilian clothes, wore arm bands in scribed "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht." They were pathetic specimens, unanimously glad to be out of the war. Their fellows in East Prussia made a dismal showing against the Reds, and Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, Germany's top military commentator, publicly belittled them as fighting...
Meanwhile the Allied air effort to wall off the Rhineland battle arena from interior Germany continued in full force. Perhaps Eisenhower might wait until this process was further along (it can never be 100% complete), or until the Russians get going on the East Prussia-Poland front. But Eisenhower knew that what the enemy most wanted him to do was to wait. Surveying the Allied reserves, the Germans could conclude that he had no intention of accommodating them. Still up General "Ike's" sleeve was a potent threat-General Brereton's powerful airborne army. It was a fair...
...much longer will they have to fight? How far must they go before the Nazis cry quits? There are many imponderables, such as the weight and power of the expected Russian offensive on the East Prussia-Vistula front, which cannot fail to affect German resistance in the west. Ike Eisenhower said last week that he was optimistic, but added: "I hope to prevent myself from becoming complacent." If anyone had asked Omar Bradley, he would probably have answered with one of the homespun phrases he utters so often: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating...
...victory over Berlin ... in the near future." But the talk around London after Churchill's return was that Stalin, a man who never seems to hurry, had his eye on next summer. The Red armies had jarred to a stop last week among the bristling defenses of East Prussia...
...weitschen-came sweetly to the ears of Russian civilians. They enjoyed the report of a Red Army correspondent, who described deserted German houses "with doors swinging in the wind to reveal tables set with meals which the escaping owners had no time to eat." But in East Prussia, the soldiers of young General Ivan Chern-yakhovsky were discovering, as their Allies in the west had already discovered, the almost epileptic ferocity with which the Germans fight for their own soil...