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Ike had to loan him a U.S. Corps, but Monty finally beat the Russians to Lubeck and kept them out of Denmark.

I saw yesterday that LTC Creighton Abrams got his long awaited and well-deserved promotion to Colonel.

And Hanson Baldwin addresses the question hanging over every ETO G.I.'s mind - and his family's - transfer to the Pacific.

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If I remember right, the plan all along had been for the Americans to help Monty if needed.

And at this point, it isn’t as if Ike didn’t have a Corps to spare.

;-)

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http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=11046

Colonel Burton Andrus assumes command of Nazi-war-crimes interrogation center and holding facility on May 6, 1945.

On May 6, 1945, U.S. Army Colonel Burton C. Andrus (1892-1977) becomes commandant of a new prison holding senior Nazi leaders facing war-crimes trials following Germany’s defeat in World War II. The interrogation center and holding facility is initially located in a former hotel in Mondorf les Bains, Luxemburg. In August 1945 the prisoners will be moved to a prison in Nuremberg, Germany, adjacent to the Palace of Justice, where International Military Tribunal trials (often known as the Nuremberg trials) will begin on November 20, 1945. Andrus will command the Nuremberg prison and, following two suicides, will attempt to make the jail suicide-proof. However, security features Andrus institutes will not prevent Hermann Goering from killing himself hours before he is to be hanged. Andrus will be relieved of duty following Goering’s suicide and for the rest of his life will blame himself for Goering’s escape from the hangman...

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On May 6, 1945, in a hotel at Wageningen, General Blaskowitz, commanding the German 21st Army, surrenders