Allied tanks in the German city of Koblenz. The new feature film, Fury, depicts the last month of the war in these startlingly real terms. The men fighting in Germany were either battle-hardened or green recruits, but all of them were sleepless and racing to end the war at breakneck speed. In spite of Allied superiority in weaponry, divisions often had to fight in close quarters with hand-to-hand combat. Limited maneuverability in small German towns resulted in heavy losses. The culmination of the war in Europe brought with it the most mechanized force the planet had ever seen with the sheer firepower of the United States military. American troops encountered some of the most tenacious and ruthless fighting of the war and faced the cruelest and vilest of human nature as they liberated concentration camps throughout the region. Small offensives, cutting supply lines, and rounding up fractured German units was far from the reality of the situation, however. Germany in April 1945 is often depicted as the Allies capturing scattered Axis soldiers and liberating citizens from the clutches of the Third Reich. Ten months after the D-Day invasion, Allied forces were sweeping through western Europe. Criss is the supervisor of the National Archives Motion Picture Preservation Lab. Prepare them for me.This post was written by Criss Kovac. They will become German soldiers, and you will be proud of them.Ĭonrad, do you still have any of those delicacies left you offered me at Ambleve? Conrad, the world is not going to get rid of us after all.Īnd my sons? When do I see them? What will become of them? For the German Army to survive, for us to remain in uniform - that is our victory. You mean Colonel for three years we have been fighting without any hope of victory? Those of us who understood knew in 1941 that we could never win. The best thing possible is happening - the war will go on. If we have not won, and we have not lost, than what is happening? Our column has made the farthest advance! We have outrun the other Panzers! The eyes of Germany are on us! The Fuhrer himself will decorate me.
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