Gott mit uns

摘要

It was imprinted on the buckle of every German soldier: "God with us." And so it seemed that day in 1946. From the abyss of disaster in late 1944, the Third Reich won a seemingly heaven-sent reprieve in the wake of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's assassination. With Russia descending into civil war, a de-facto cease fire had allowed the Wehrmacht to concentrate against the West, And there the lines had remained with little movement either way-an appalling replay of the Western Front of the Great War.