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History of Alsace: Alemannic Separatism, Ban de La Roche, Battle of Wissembourg (1870), Colmar Pocket, Colmar Treasure, County of Dagsbur

History of Alsace: Alemannic Separatism, Ban de La Roche, Battle of Wissembourg (1870), Colmar Pocket, Colmar Treasure, County of Dagsbur


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Alemannic separatism, Ban de la Roche, Battle of Wissembourg (1870), Colmar Pocket, Colmar Treasure, County of Dagsburg, Decapole, Duchy of Alsace, Further Austria, History of the Jews in Alsace, List of Alsatians and Lotharingians, November 1918 in Alsace-Lorraine, Saverne Affair, Sundgau, Unterelsass, Upper Alsace. Excerpt: The Colmar Pocket (French: ); (German: ) is the term for a containment operation in Alsace, France, during the Second World War by the U.S. 6th Army Group of the German Nineteenth Army following the collapse of the Nazi Operation Nordwind. A joint U.S.-French force of the French First Army reinforced by the U.S. XXI Corps overwhelmed fierce Wehrmacht and SS resistance in harsh winter conditions between 20 January and 9 February 1945, bringing to a close one of the last German offensives of World War II. A German bridgehead on the west bank of the Rhine 40 miles (65 km) long and 30 miles (50 km) deep was formed in November 1944 when the German defenses in the Vosges Mountains collapsed under the pressure of an offensive by the U.S. 6th Army Group. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's French First Army forced the Belfort Gap and destroyed the German IV Luftwaffe Korps near the town of Burnhaupt in the southern Vosges Mountains. Soon thereafter, French forces reached the Rhine in the region north of the Swiss border between Mulhouse and Basel. Likewise, in the northern Vosges Mountains, the French 2nd Armored Division spearheaded a U.S. Seventh Army advance, forced the Saverne Gap, and drove to the Rhine, liberating Strasbourg on 23 November 1944. The effect of these two advances was to collapse the German presence in southern Alsace west of the Rhine to a semi-circular-shaped bridgehead centered on the town of Colmar that came to be known as the Colmar Pocket. Apart from Normandy, the areas of..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230751184
  • Publisher: Booksllc.Net
  • Publisher Imprint: Booksllc.Net
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230751181
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Alemannic Separatism, Ban de La Roche, Battle of Wissembourg (1870), Colmar Pocket, Colmar Treasure, County of Dagsbur
  • Width: 189 mm


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