Allied Forces Clear the Ruhr Pocket

While Stalin’s hordes were ravaging the eastern territories of the Reich, it was on 1 April 1945 that Field-Marshal Walter Model’s Army Group ‘B’ was encircled inside the Ruhr pocket with all escape routes sealed. One of the great imponderable of World War II is the conduct of your father during the last campaign of his career. His final heroic stand for the Fatherland is clouded by several big question-marks which the military historians have failed to analyze. You and I know his style of operational command which was so consistently brilliant during his command of Army Groups North, Centre and South on the Russian front. He had already earned wide recognition as the master of flexible defence and he always displayed a remarkable knack of being able to scrape up reserves in emergency.

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