Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans managed their surrender with a skill which will plague the victors for years to come. No Wehrmacht campaign was ever planned to deadlier purpose, executed with greater cunning...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, at last defeated and taken in Austria, notably broke the pattern insofar as he professed complete loyalty to Adolf Hitler, blamed defeat on both military and political bunglers. But, smiling and spruce and personally unbowed, he was a living embodiment of Wehrmacht "honor." ¶I General Kurt Dittmar, theGerman ground forces' prize analyst, was asked by his U.S. and British captors to write a speech for broadcasting to the defeated Germans. He did, but it was not used: he had composed a masterful exoneration of the Wehrmacht...
...Hitler had pushed his last advantage as far as it would go-and farther. In 15 months of hard fighting the Wehrmacht had not conquered a single other nation nor won a decisive battle...
...Wehrmacht still showed skill. It held the Russians at the Vistula. It held the Allies' secondary attack in Italy. It launched a vigorous offensive in the Ardennes. But, once its two initial advantages in manpower and weapons had been definitely lost, it did not conduct a single successful campaign. Like the Allies in Stage I, the Germans in Stage III lost every major battle...
...Total defeat of the Wehrmacht, "for over a century ... the sinew of German pride." This operation, now accomplished, lays a psychological basis for a cure...