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...Eisenhower had won a classic victory, one of history's greatest. By this week it had taken his main forces into the heart of Germany for the fatal thrusts. But the measure of the victory was back in the Ruhr basin. There last week the last cohesive resistance died; Dusseldorf fell. The bag of prisoners was astonishing: more than 317,000. There was no complete count of the enemy dead; the total would probably be more than 25.000. Thus the Ruhr had yielded a greater harvest of annihilation than the Russians' tide-turning triumph at Stalingrad, with...
...Supreme Headquarters, Ike's Chief of Staff, trim, brilliant Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, summed up the Ruhr victory: "The largest double envelopment in military history...
...Americans asked: "Why didn't you leave the Ruhr...
...patrol picked up Papen in the Ruhr. They found him dining alone in elegant splendor. He wore his accustomed knickerbockers (he is proud of his legs); on a couch rested a Tyrolean hat with a rakish feather. "There are no German soldiers here," he said in impeccable English. " I can't imagine what you want with...
...Munitions Master Alfred Krupp, taken in his huge Ruhr mansion (see below...