Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major assault: Germany itself. How completely the enemy had been outgeneraled was evident in the positions of Eisenhower's armies. His main U.S. forces, which the Germans had expected in a second invasion on the Calais coast, were deep into Belgium, were knocking at the gates to the Rhineland. Monty's main force, against which the Germans had guarded the most direct route to Paris, was invading the robomb coast-by land...
Through the blackout it appeared that Patton had used Troyes, 90 miles southeast of Paris, as he had used Le Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
...also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...
...pants off everyone present. When Benito Mussolini arrived a short time later, Hitler held up the ragged remnants to show that nothing worse had happened to him. Hitler was verging on a nervous breakdown, terrified of further attempts on his life, had -deserted Berchtesgaden for a heavily guarded Rhineland estate...
...French Empire to be restored but was ready to go along with changes that would grant greater autonomy to the more developed regions; 3) he had no fears of U.S. designs on French terri tories; 4) he believed a French army of occupation should be placed in the Rhineland, perhaps for "many years...