Word: wehrmachters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Meanwhile on the western front the impoverished Wehrmacht was forced to spend, spend, spend...
This was the same sort of wastage that the German Army suffered during the early days of the battle of Normandy. The Wehrmacht was now being reinforced by the old, the young, the deaf, the wounded (only partially recuperated). Heinrich Himmler was organizing his home guards to back up the line. He also visited the front, ordered troops to dig new positions, to remain in them until killed or ordered to retreat...
...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...