Optimists who had forgotten that recent Allied advances were the payoff of a battle fought two months ago in Normandy were shocked last week to find the Germans putting up another fight. But the scare which the Wehrmacht threw into the Allies at Arnhem obscured the fact that last week was a bad week for the Wehrmacht.
Not only did the Germans lose two more campaignsin the Baltic States and northern Italybut on the western front they were fighting another battle which was going badly for them.
For at Arnhem, where the Allies had...
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