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...Saar produces only about one-seventh as much iron & stel as the Ruhr...
...this week it seemed clear that the Nazi High Command intended to force a decision west of the Rhine, and specifically west of that stretch of the Rhine covering the Ruhr. The German gamble suited Generals Eisenhower and Bradley down to the ground: they both believed in the good old copybook maxim that it is more important to destroy the enemy than to capture ground...
...Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...
...words stirred echoes of historical bitterness. France alone among the big Allies had had experience in a punitive occupation of Germany. Much of Europe's subsequent grim history stemmed directly from France's unsuccessful 1923 occupation of the Ruhr. Then the failure of Britain and the U.S. to support France militarily or morally showed the Germans how isolated France was, how divided the Allies were. There the Nazis achieved their first hero-Leo Schlageter-a German lieutenant whom the French shot for terroristic acts. There the new revolutionary forces-Naziism and Communism-collaborated when the Communist International...
Open to his army were opportunities: 1) to trap the Germans left in The Netherlands; 2) to flank the West Wall at Cleve, and lead a drive to occupy the Ruhr and cut the communications of the Germans in the Siegfried Line...