The Rhineland 1945 - The Last Killing Ground In The West

The Allied armies under the supreme command of Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower had, by the start of 1945. arrived at the German border and they stretched from The Netherlands to the Swiss frontier. Below Strasbourg Gen Devers' US 6th Army Group had actually pushed the Germans back to the River Rhine. Elsewhere, the front line either confronted the German Siegfried defensive line (Hitler's Westwall) or rested on other river barriers. North of Aachen. Gen Simpson's US 9th Army had breached the Siegfried Line, but was stalled in from of the River Roer, while Gen Dempsey's British 2nd Army was lined up along the River Maas. In the far north, in Holland. Gen Crerar's Canadian 1st Army held a bridgehead between the Maas and the Rhine overlooking German soil - a legacy of the failed Arnhem campaign - but was confronted with one of the strongest sectors of the Siegfried Line.
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