Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, U.S. armies cut the Wehrmacht to gobbets, plowed within 150 miles of Berlin...
...military force on the western front are a whipped army." To the Germans themselves he proclaimed: "The German government has ceased to exercise effective control over wide areas. The German High Command has lost effective control over many units, large & small, of the German forces. Soldiers of the German Wehrmacht . . . cease hostilities . . . surrender...
Nine Allied armies, knifing into central Germany, trapped one Nazi army group and were on the verge of cutting off a second. In this week, on the edge of history, the outnumbered, outmaneuvered, broken Wehrmacht faced the chilling prospect of losing two-thirds of its strength in the west...
...less harried German command would have known better. In less than a fortnight Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had cut to ribbons two good German armies in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, and had taken 100,000 prisoners the Wehrmacht could not afford to lose. Now Patton posed an even more serious threat to the weakening foe. He was in position to strike into the Main River valley, to try to split northern and southern Germany, thus perhaps prevent the expected Nazi move to hole up in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had twice been at the top of the Wehrmacht command ladder in the west, went down again last week-and this time probably out. His successor: bulldog-faced Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...