EISENHOWER SETS GOAL: CAPTURE NAZIS’ NATIONAL REDOUBT
SHAEF HQ, Reims, France • March 11, 1945 The hard-fought victories of the Western Allies between October 1944 and the Rhine River crossings in March 1945 held out the promise of an imminent end to the war in Europe. Seven Allied armies were advancing north, east, and south into the German heartland against bitter albeit…