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Deep inside the Reich with Patton's rampaging divisions, Sidney Olson found "the little valley roads covered with the junk of war-the crunched helmets and the equipment thrown away in panicky retreat, the charred hulks of tanks, guns, trucks, automobiles. The little hill towns are only slightly damaged by bombing as they were never strategic targets, and it seems odd to see housewives washing their windows. . . . I am too tired now to carry this on, but I intend to keep cracking at this German atmosphere until I am satisfied that I get across some of its unreality...
Death rattled in the throat of the Nazi Reich. And as the Caliban State, which Hitler had prophesied would last a thousand years, threshed and trembled in its last agonies, 80,000,000 Germans were cast into chaos...
...Whether or not there were to be heroics on high, it was clear that there was to be Naziism underground. Allied officials said they had solid evidence of a Nazi plan to carry on from secret arsenals and secret cells until the Allied coalition split and a new, triumphant Reich could arise. Other sources added details...
Washington knew that 75-year-old Bernard Baruch favored a stern peace for Germany, although short of Henry Morgenthau's reported plan to eliminate German industry. Baruch was for a long occupation of the Reich and stripping down all German war industries...
Patton lost no time in seizing his opportunity. The day after his crossing he struck boldly, dashed nearly 30 miles through and around Darmstadt, entered Frankfurt, the Reich's ninth city. More important, the Third seized a Main bridge south of Frankfurt, put another force along the river opposite Hanau, ten miles east of Frankfurt. If Patton were to be held back, the Germans would have to match his speed - and they never...