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“The Reich is Split Up/Further Resistance is Senseless” 1945

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I’d hate to have been in some Wehrmacht hellhole foxhole in March 1945 and have this fall on me from the sky–I imagine there was little doubt that even the lowest ranking soldier knew that they were in the grip of some enormous vise.  

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