The Rhineland 1945, The Last
Killing Ground in the West by Ken Ford
Known as the last great
'stand-up fight' of the Second World War, the battle for the Rhineland was
brutal in the extreme. Eisenhower's 'broad front' policy called for the
whole of the Rhineland to be taken before pushing his troops across the
Rhine and into Germany itself. The Germans opened the Roer dams in a vain
effort to temper this massive Allied offensive, and this called for a
drastic change in tactics. The ensuing battle was characterised by
amphibious assaults on the fortified villages of the flooded Rhine
lowlands, frontal assaults on the much vaunted Siegfried Line and grim
fighting for the Reichswald Forest. It was to be 'the last great killing
ground in the west'.
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