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...Germany is to be an Allied, cooperative job: "The forces of the three powers will each occupy a separate zone. ... A central control commission consisting of the supreme commanders of the three powers [will have] headquarters in Berlin." France will be invited to take a fourth zone (presumably the Ruhr and the Rhine's west bank), a fourth place on the control commission...
...French Army must guard the postwar German frontier "from one end of the Rhine to the other." ¶The Ruhr valley and all lands west of the Rhine must not be part of the postwar "German State or States." ¶Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and the Balkan countries must be independent-and free to make alliances with France. ¶"We alone [cannot] insure the security of Europe. We must have alliances. We have concluded a great and good alliance with strong and courageous Soviet Russia. . . . We are desirous of signing one some day with brave old England, as soon...
...Roer valley is the natural platform for an attack on the Ruhr, now all the more precious to Germany since industrial Silesia has been invaded by the Russians. From the Roer Eisenhower had been preparing to attack in December when Rundstedt's blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing to attack again, in the same valley. He had completely regained the initiative. The place was right, the time was ripe- and, according to the nervous Ger mans, Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army was accumulating potent masses of armor. Lack of armor in heavy concentration...
...Russians follow their familiar pattern, they will firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...
...Germans were staggered. It was a cruel blow. At Gleiwitz was a synthetic fuel plant that employed 38,000. It had been moved to "safe" Silesia from the air-vulnerable Ruhr. Near by was a great new engine works, also built far from the Allied bomber fields. At Beuthen was the biggest zinc mine in Europe. Out of Katowice had poured automobiles, chemicals, machine tools. Out of the basin had gone much of the coal for the industries and railroads of the eastern Reich and Czechoslovakia...