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Eddy drove his captives in his command car to headquarters and served them his best brandy. By radio he notified Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, VII Corps commander. "Lightning Joe" Collins said he'd be right over. While they waited, good host Eddy tried to make small talk. Schlieben was taciturn; Hennecke was glad of the chance...
Piecemeal Surrender. Amid formality as stiff as an inspection on West Point's plains, Collins asked Schlieben to surrender the entire Cherbourg garrison. The answer was a quick, emphatic "Nein...
Collins argued that it was unfair of Schlieben to surrender himself, leaving his men to fight, many of them to die. Schlieben persisted: his experience in Russia had taught him the value of delaying tactics by small, holdout groups. Joe Collins set his long jaw, dismissed them. They were driven away, past grinning M.P.s. The mop-up went...
...Lower Level. Schlieben's small, holdout groups achieved a few hours more delay. Time & again U.S. troops cleared one level of a Vauban-Todt fort, only to have Germans emerge in their rear from a lower level. Schlieben's tunnel system at first yielded 300 Nazi moles; from the sub-basement finally came 500 more...
Punctiliously the Ninth's commander, Major General Manton S. Eddy, had extended every military courtesy-including brandy and a talk about the battle-to the city's captured defenders: German Lieut. General Karl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben and Rear Admiral Walther Hennecke. As he accompanied his prisoners to the door, camera bulbs flashed. A grump from the Germans brought a tactful explanation: the U.S. press is free; General Eddy could not and would not forbid the photographers to take pictures. General von Schlieben snarled that he was bored with the whole idea of a free press...