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...generalship, particularly that of Eisenhower and Bradley, was generally unimaginative and costly, and prolonged the war by insisting on a broad front in Europe. Montgomery could have won the war with one massive strike for the Ruhr after the Normandy breakout...
Because Wilmot knows that Germany's General Model was guarding the Ruhr in September 1944 with scraps of beaten units and only enough tanks (239) for one armored division (the Allies could have mustered twelve divisions), he is confident that Monty would have broken through had Ike turned him loose. The German generals are on Wilmot's side of the argument. Says Major General Blumentritt, Model's chief of staff: "Such a breakthrough . . . would have torn the weak German front to pieces and ended the war in the winter...
...worn tweed jacket and odd slacks, became the postwar successor to arrogant Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was no pro, but that fact was reassuring to Germany's unforgiving neighbors. To ease French fears that Germany might dominate the Schuman Plan, he quietly pointed out that the Ruhr will contribute more than half of the coal and one-third of the steel, but will have only two members on the nine-man high authority...
...Nazi as Judge Advocate in the Ruhr...
Principles & Politics. Konrad Adenauer, who combines rigid principle with flexible political skill, had worked deftly to achieve an unexpectedly sweeping victory. The Ruhr capitalists, who compose the right wing of his coalition, yielded when he wangled from the allies a promise to speed up the end of occupation controls over coal exports and steel capacity. He had won other votes by his courage in replying to demagogic Communist taunts. He stated bluntly that the Schuman Plan would incidentally mean that the heartfelt issue of German reunification had to come second to Germany's joining in the West...