Word: rhineland
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...Cession of the Saar and other Rhineland industrial areas to France; cession of East Prussia to Poland...
...Siegfried Line at Aachen was broken in five places. Even with inadequate forces, a well organized enemy should have been able to hold that strong position for at least two weeks. Western Germany had been successfully invaded for the first time since Napoleon.* The soil of the Rhineland, Germany's storied, sacred frontier, lay just beyond...
This northeast drive took the enemy off guard, but there was ample doubt that he could have done much about it, even with advance notice. He had committed the bulk of his dwindling forces to keeping the war from the Rhineland...
...would like to swap, let Britain have the southwest and take Britain's area, which includes the Ruhr, the Rhineland and the North Sea coast. Reason: U.S. supply lines, already stretched across the Atlantic, would be somewhat shortened by access from the North Sea. A possible compromise: joint U.S.-British occupation of all of western Germany...
...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...