Word: wehrmacht
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Optimists who had forgotten that recent Allied advances were the payoff of a battle fought two months ago in Normandy were shocked last week to find the Germans putting up another fight. But the scare which the Wehrmacht threw into the Allies at Arnhem obscured the fact that last week was a bad week for the Wehrmacht...
...fact that American troops were on German soil, nor the fact that they had pierced the Siegfried Line, which gave the strongest evidence that the war in Europe was rapidly drawing to a close. The clearest sign was evidence of disorganization in the Wehrmacht...
...German fighting machine, thrown off balance in Normandy, had never been allowed to recover. Now disorganization had gone so far that the groggy Wehrmacht, backed against the ropes, lay open to a haymaker...
...heard the Allied guns pounding 25 miles away, the editor of the Kölnische (Cologne) Zeitung wrote an editorial: "The steam roller of the Allied air force, supported by tank divisions, has driven back our Wehrmacht. If only we had three additional air fleets and ten additional Panzer divisions...
...mountains above Rimini the world's smallest republic, claiming to be Europe's oldest state, with 38 square miles of mountain territory and 12,900 inhabitants, accepted its fate with dignity. San Marino's Government decided that its Army of 78 men could not oppose the Wehrmacht, yielded to the German demand to open its roads. Allied artillery replied with gunfire...