Word: retreats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Allied armies on the western front waited for Antwerp to open up, there could be no general push. So, while U.S. troops, from Belgium south, scrapped fiercely in local actions and conserved their ammunition, the only full-scale fighting was in The Netherlands, where the Germans were in orderly retreat northward across the Maas...
Rundstedt Retreat. Tilburg, 's Hertogenbosch, Breda, Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom were the bolt positions in the German line from the Maas to the Scheldt estuary. All five had fallen this week without much of a fight. Allied airmen reported columns of German transports scuttling north to the rivers...
...Germans evidently feared being pinned against the Maas as they had been nailed against the Seine in France. They had an estimated 60,000 troops below the Maas, including the doomed and dwindling pockets on the Scheldt estuary. They were definitely in retreat. In contrast to the bitter stalemate fighting elsewhere on the western front, the British-Canadian forces made good time. Nevertheless the Germans retreated in good order. They needed time to get set between the Maas. the Waal and the Led. They had to hold the Arnhem hinge...
Perhaps this retreat, a sound strategic move, reflected the return to command on the western front of Germany's No. 1 soldier, chill Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who was apparently back in Hitler's favor. Field Marshal Walter von Model, the previous commander, was now in charge of the northern sector under Rundstedt. Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz commanded the southern...
Skillfully the Russians and their German comrades won over the Wehrmacht officers and men. They kept the German commanders posted, by battle map, on the steady German retreat, east & west. They worked on the tradition of Russo-German friendship among the German military cadres-a tradition implanted by Bismarck, cultivated by General Hans von Seeckt, who outwitted the Allies and armed the Reichswehr in part with the help of munitions and plane factories in Russia...