Year of Retribution: Allied Drives to End the War 1945
The account traces 1945 as Allies push into Germany from Bastogne to the Rhine, with Hodges First Army and Patton Third Army advancing amid air drops and heavy bombardment. It notes uprisings, air assaults, and the Ninth Armored Division probing the Rhine bank as the year culminates in decisive pressure on Fortress Germany.
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Courtney Hodges
Rundstedt
Bulge
George Patton
Bastogne
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Germany
NEA
Rhineland
de Saar
Rhine
Holland
Bar
Ruhr
Saar
England
France
Belgum
Italy
Hitler
Western Front
Caty
Berlin
London
Paderborn
Czechoslovakia
Walter Bedell Smith
Normandy
Siegfried Line
Surrender at Reims unfolds amid Nazi fragmentation and pursuit
In a 1945 NEA report the surrender at Reims is framed as the collapse of the German regime. Hitler is missing or dead, Goering is a fugitive in Bavaria, Doenitz proclaims a government from Flensburg, while Allied forces trap Wehrmacht remnants in barbed wire pens in a dramatic closing chapter of the war.
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NEA Service
Hitler
Goerme
Bavaria
Doenitz
Germany
Flensrg
Wehrmacht
Alfred Jodl
Reims Technical School
Eisenhower
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