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...west (see U.S. AT WAR). On some sectors last week, in fact, the Germans were still full of fight. They fought hard for the north, to keep the Allies away from the ports; for the south, to keep them away from the Alpine bastion; and for the cut-off Ruhr, which, though its industries were useless, had become a pocket of strategic value (see below...
...First Army's armor was within 140 miles of the capital, speeding toward the Elbe. As they had cut off the Ruhr, Lieut. Generals Simpson and Hodges were now in position to form another trap, with Berlin as its center. Lieut. General Patton's tankmen were apparently going to face a cohesive enemy on the roads to Leipzig...
...richest German industrial prize in the west-the Ruhr Valley-last week turned out to be a thorny package...
When units of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies joined hands at Lippstadt (TIME, April 9), the Germans in the Ruhr were cut off in a pocket about 200 miles around, anchored on the Rhine from Bonn to Duisburg. Trapped inside were elements of the German Fifteenth, First Parachute and Fifth Panzer Armies-120,000 to 125,000 troops...
...propagandize for a square deal for Germans, then for the return of German property confiscated by Allied governments, eventually for the resurrection of German cartels and industrial strength. Masterminds of this plan are Himmler and Henchmen Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Wilhelm Schepmann (an organizer of anti-Allied sabotage in the Ruhr...