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Collaboration. Heinrich Himmler seems, or seemed until recently, to be getting along well with the three generals who seem to be running the German war machine: Wilhelm Keitel, Heinz Guderian and Alfred Jodl. Gerd von Rundstedt, the genius who mounted the December offensive in the west, is apparently still under suspicion as a disdainful Junker and has little to say about overall policy...
...December, when Rundstedt broke through in the Ardennes, gloom lay heavy on the western Allies. Last week, as Joseph Stalin's armies thundered into the eastern Reich, the pendulum was swinging back to rosy optimism. Perhaps, once more, it was swinging...
Prospects. Yet Rundstedt's offensive had won Germany a respite in the west. Front correspondents estimated that Eisenhower could not launch a full-scale blow for another month at least. By then, spring thaws in the east would be slowing the Russians, if they were not already halted by overstrained supply lines. And the Nazis had not yet shown what sort of stand they could make in their inner eastern defenses...
...Armored retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...
Added Punch: "Military experts are unanimous that Rundstedt has taken an irrevocable step toward what may be the turning point of the hinge of the pincers he cannot draw out from or with...