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source: www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/wor… These guys are parading around in all these photos openly wearing Nazi insignia.

Just in time to be slaughtered for the supposed (and probably non existent) and much anticipated Spring Counter Offensive in a replay of the utterly failed Ardennes Offensive of 1944.

aka the battle of the bulge.

for those who need a refresher: source Encyclopedia Britanica: www.britannica.com/event/Battl…

"Battle of the Bulge, also called Battle of the Ardennes, (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945), the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II —an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. The name Battle of the Bulge was appropriated from Winston Churchill ’s optimistic description in May 1940 of the resistance that he mistakenly supposed was being offered to the Germans’ breakthrough in that area just before the Anglo-French collapse; the Germans were in fact overwhelmingly successful. The “bulge” refers to the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines.

After their invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Allies moved across northern France into Belgium during the summer but lost momentum in the autumn. Apart from an abortive thrust to Arnhem , Netherlands, the efforts of the Allied armies in western Europe during September and October 1944 amounted to little more than a process of nibbling. Meanwhile, the German defense was being continuously strengthened with such reserves as could be relocated from elsewhere and with the freshly raised forces of the Volkssturm (“home guard”). German numbers were also bolstered by those troops who had managed to withdraw from France. A general offensive launched in mid-November by all six Allied armies on the Western Front brought disappointingly small results at heavy cost; continued efforts merely exhausted the attacking troops."

so to summarize at great expense to themselves, the Nazis wasted what was left of their strategic reserves and succeded in merely creating a bulge in the allies front line.

And that was mostly possible because the western commanders believed (with good reason) that it would be madness for the Germans to launch any large offensives given their poor state.

So what little was accomplished was only possible through surprise that it would even have been attempted at all.

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source: www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/wor… These guys are parading around in all these photos openly wearing Nazi insignia.

Just in time to be slaughtered for the supposed (and probably non existent) and much anticipated Spring Counter Offensive in a replay of the utterly failed Ardennes Offensive of 1944.

aka the battle of the bulge.

for those who need a refresher: source Encyclopedia Britanica: www.britannica.com/event/Battl…

"Battle of the Bulge, also called Battle of the Ardennes, (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945), the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II —an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. The name Battle of the Bulge was appropriated from Winston Churchill ’s optimistic description in May 1940 of the resistance that he mistakenly supposed was being offered to the Germans’ breakthrough in that area just before the Anglo-French collapse; the Germans were in fact overwhelmingly successful. The “bulge” refers to the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines.

After their invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Allies moved across northern France into Belgium during the summer but lost momentum in the autumn. Apart from an abortive thrust to Arnhem , Netherlands, the efforts of the Allied armies in western Europe during September and October 1944 amounted to little more than a process of nibbling. Meanwhile, the German defense was being continuously strengthened with such reserves as could be relocated from elsewhere and with the freshly raised forces of the Volkssturm (“home guard”). German numbers were also bolstered by those troops who had managed to withdraw from France. A general offensive launched in mid-November by all six Allied armies on the Western Front brought disappointingly small results at heavy cost; continued efforts merely exhausted the attacking troops."

so to summarize at great expense to themselves, the Nazis wasted what was left of their strategic reserves and succeded in merely creating a bulge in the allies front line.

And that was mostly possible because the western commanders believed (with good reason) that it would be madness for the Germans to launch any large offensives given their poor state.

So what little was accomplished was only possible through surprise that it would even have been attempted at all.