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...hear that the Rhine had been crossed must have been a shattering blow to the remnants of German morale. The Rhine, the sacred river that winds through German song & story, had not been crossed by hostile armies since Napoleon passed over it at Strasbourg in 1805. * As a military factor, the Remagen bridgehead offered the chance of a drive to the northeast, outflanking the Ruhr; or a push to the southeast, forcing a German withdrawal from the Saar and the rest of the Rhineland south of the Moselle...
André Malraux, leftist French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope}, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the 1940 Battle of France, was still in the thick of it - leading his own 4,000-man F.F.I, army in the fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined...
While the Germans were trying to take Strasbourg, they were in a fair way to lose Colmar. Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny, who last fortnight attacked the Colmar pocket on the south, last week began to squeeze it on both sides. With Tassigny's French First Army was a crack U.S. infantry division, which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village...
...Germans wanted Strasbourg for its prestige value; the Allies wanted to hold it for the same reason. Strategically it was not worth a heavy commitment of reserves. But Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny promised a last-ditch defense...
...Germans' 10th and 9th Armored Divisions, which had spearheaded the Ardennes offensive, suddenly reappeared in other sectors-one in the battle for Strasbourg, the other on the Third Army's front, south of Trier...