The Battle of the Bulge

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This paper discusses how the Battle of the Bulge (also known as the Ardennes Offensive) served as the final breaking point for Hitler's Third Reich. The paper describes the whole battle and looks at how, although ten of thousands of lives had been lost on both sides, the Battle of the Bulge was not to be despaired of, for it served as one of the greatest military engagements in the war in Europe which bought a quick and decisive end to the war and to the Third Reich.

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"On December 19, 1944, General Eisenhower and his top field commanders met at Verdun, France in order to come up with a plan to stop the German advance. At this time, the American and Allied forces were experiencing massive breakthroughs--panzers were streaming all along the Allied lines and numerous German divisions were marching through a gap some thirty miles wide between St. Vith and Bastogne. In addition, German paratroopers were landing at a number of important crossroads with enemy commandos, disguised as American soldiers, infiltrating the American/Allied front lines, switching signs and relaying false coordinates to American officers. Once it was realized that there were Germans disguised as Americans hiding in their ranks, morale fell to an all-time low and paranoia began to set in. Eisenhower needed to act quickly to take back the initiative."

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