Well gosh. Looks like the Battle of the Meuse just might end at the English Channel.
At least until the tides of war run the other direction...
Austrian civilians prepare mass graves to bury former inmates in the Gusen concentration camp after American forces liberated the camp. Gusen, Austria, between May 5 and May 15, 1945.
— USHMM, courtesy of Marvin Springer
An emaciated survivor wrapped in a blanket sits up on a stretcher in the newly liberated Gusen concentration camp. Gusen, Austria, between May 5 and May 15, 1945.
— National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.
I remember that article by Baldwin. It wasn’t very accurate or informative, and I didn’t have a high opinion of Baldwin at the time because he was so far off from what was actually happening. Since then he made a much better impresion. In part I would attribute it to his cultivation of a number of well-placed sources. In part, the article of May 15, 1940 was a reflection of the fog of war, where the French had no idea what was happening on their Meuse Front, and the Germans weren’t telling anyone.
But nobody other than the Germans expected the Battle of France to go the way it did. Certainly not Joseph Stalin.