Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht was now being reinforced by the old, the young, the deaf, the wounded (only partially recuperated). Heinrich Himmler was organizing his home guards to back up the line. He also visited the front, ordered troops to dig new positions, to remain in them until killed or ordered to retreat...
Near Luxembourg the Allies found a purported Hitler staff document. It called on officers to save themselves at all costs: "An officer's salvation in retreat is in the interests of the country." (Lately there has been a low percentage of officers among prisoners taken.) There was other evidence that officer groups, cut off in Holland, were deserting their men, either to save themselves to lead an untried, last-ditch army of civilians and military misfits or to go underground to keep Naziism alive...
Since TIME and LIFE Correspondent Jack Belden (Retreat with Stilwell) saw his first battle outside Peiping in 1937, he has reported war in Burma, India, North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, been wounded at Salerno, recovered to get in the thick of the current European invasion. Still Time to Die is mostly expert, on-the-spot description of the battles he has seen. But it rises a notch above other able war reporting through Correspondent Belden's provocative summing up of what he has learned in his seven war-filled years. Some of the prime lessons...
Other royalties were collected by Lieut. General Patch's northbound Seventh Army, which pushed the Germans hard on the retreat which they had no choice of making because of Eisenhower's success in northern France...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito's National Army of Liberation, with a leaven of British and U.S. specialists (notably in demolition, radio, and intelligence), slashed gaps in railroad lines along which the Germans might try to retreat. The little people of the hills, ground down by the Herrenvolk, were rising in arms. And already the Russian armies were knocking at the Iron Gate to join them...