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...commanders it ended over different tables at different hours: for Alexander in Caserta on Sunday; for Montgomery on Lüneburg Heath on the following Friday; for Devers, at Munich on Saturday...
Four other leaders of the old France were also returning from Germany. Ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud (Petain's predecessor), Edouard Daladier (of Munich fame) and Leon Blum (of the Popular Front), were presumably coming home via Switzerland. Ex-Premier Edouard Herriot (leader of the Radical Socialists) was stopping first in Moscow. These men, plus the 2,500,000 plain French prisoners and deportees pouring back home, were the potent imponderables of France's political future...
Nazi Germany was finished. Nevertheless, despite peace feelers put out by Heinrich Himmler, despite the death throes of Berlin, despite revolution in Munich, cradle city of Naziism, despite the U.S.-Russian linkup, which cut the mortally wounded monster in two, some thousands of German fanatics stared blindly ahead and still had the will to fire another useless shot...
...green legions that once ruled Europe were now slack and disorganized in defeat-a soft, mushy mass of an army with only a few muscles of resistance. Cut in two by a U.S.-Russian meeting (see below), the Wehrmacht was all but cut into thirds and sixths. Bremen and Munich fell. The threat of a formidable national redoubt in the Alps was fast fading, and with it, the last German hope of delay...
...Munich, heart of Nazidom and Germany's third largest city, was torn by revolution but fought savagely nevertheless. The U.S. Seventh Army had plunged 20 miles through defenseless countryside to the outskirts of the old city where Adolf Hitler hatched his movement in a beer hall. Then suddenly nests of SS men had exploded into action and forced the Americans to battle their...